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DEBATE OF JAN. 11, 1888.Subject: Resolved, that the agitation for an eight-hour working day promotes the best interest of the laboring classes...
...employees of the government in Washington who work by the day are taking measures to secure the enforcement of the eight-hour law, and to recover pay for the extra two hours...
Government employees at Washington waited upon the President yesterday to urge the enforcement of the eight-hour...
...side of the question, - that which concerns religion as it is now taught. Scepticism and contempt for the "theologians" have, we are told, long prevailed among them, until, in the natural course of events, they have begun to add the discussion of religious belief to that of the "eight-hour law," or the rights of labor. For the least educated portion of society to have caught so quickly the sentiments of the most advanced thinkers would, no long time ago, have been impossible; but now Mr. Ruskin finds a correspondent among the "working" cork-cutters of Sunderland, and mechanics...