Word: eight-hour
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Sublect: "Resolved, That the agitation for an eight-hour working day promotes the best interests of the laboring classes...
...eight-hour system would lessen the number of unemployed, and diminish social dangers. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics for 1886, p. 228. Gunton, supra...
...years an eight-hour working day will be sufficient to supply the needs of the people, because of: (a) improvements in machinery, and (b) greater efficiency of workmen. Atkinson's Margin of Profits, p. 24. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics, 1886, pp. 228-35, 238-44. Schoenhof's Industrial Situation...
...eight-hour agitation is peculiarly valuable for economic education of the laboring classes...
...Theoretic economic objections. (a) The eight-hour day can only be beneficial when the condition of industry is more advanced than at present. (b) It may become so hereafter. If so, the eight-hour day will come of itself, obedient to economic laws, and the present agitation will have been premature. (c) It may never become so. In this case the eight-hour day would be economically harmful, and the present agitation will have been worse than useless...