Word: eight-hour
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...Prospect Progressive Union will meet at its rooms in the Prospect House, Cambridgeport, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject for discussion is, "The Eight-hour Working...
...show piece of The Atlantic for June is General Walker's "The Eight-Hour Law Agitation," in which he gives an extremely candid and fair view of the subject on various sides, while nto pretending to hide his own conviction of the impracticability of such legislation. Mr. Warner, in his paper on "The Novel and the Common School," unintentionally emphasizes Mr. Lowell's remark that we are the most common-schooled and least educated people in the world. Mr. Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage...
...chairman, Mr. Joseph Lee, is to have as many points of view represented as possible, and he extends an invitation to Harvard men who can thus have a chance to hear workingmen present a question in a forcible manner. The subject at present under discussion is the eight-hour law. The next meeting will be held next Friday at eight o'clock and there will probably be talks during the month of April...
...intelligent and prosperous often prove of real benefit. There are many work men ambitious to study, and a few men could do much for these by giving the results, for a few evenings a week, of their training. There is much that students could do. The members of the Eight-hour League, for instance, in Boston want to discuss their subject. Why do not a few men go into them? Two groups of Socialists want to do the same. Henry George's Society has challenged business men, professors and clergymen alike without response. The work men have an intense...
Sublect: "Resolved, That the agitation for an eight-hour working day promotes the best interests of the laboring classes...