Word: eight-hour
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Recently the pendulum has been swinging the other way, for specialists tell us we should sleep as long as we can. Propagandists urge that the eight-hour law be applied to sleep as well as to labor, but still the answer to these rival claims remains unanswered...
Lastly he advocated an increase education and enlightened interest in politics as the only means of achieving world order an to this end he showed the necessity of the eight-hour day and the solution of the problem of unemployment to guarantee to the masses the health and leisure to sound thinking
...farm to live for three years with the artist. At the end of three years, satiate with the life of ill-earned case, she becomes a worker in New York at seven dollars a week, organizes a labor union for women, finally passes a bill making possible the eight-hour day for women. The governor who signs the bill is none other than the girl's country lover of the first act, and it is he whom she now marries. The crucial clash in the play comes between the governor, his wife, and a political blackmailer. The scene of inquisition...
...enterprising neighbor, Technology, is this week undergoing a thorough 24-hours-a-day test of its engineering equipment, by all its engineering students, working in eight-hour shifts. Harvard, to be sure, has no such test of its material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years...
...organization of labor coincided with the beginning of the factory age, when the long hours, resulting from the new use of artificial light, the little regard for human life, and the introduction of the labor of women and children called forth protests from all thinking men. The reduction of the working day from fourteen or sixteen hours to twelve was met with the same arguments of the impending ruin of industry and the invasion of the rights of workingmen as are now leveled against the eight-hour day. But it would be difficult for any man to convince laborers that...