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...Cleveland, after scientific tests with typists, Patent Attorney Frank M. Slough declared that the average typist does more manual labor in an eight-hour day than a ditchdigger...
Affecting Pennsylvania employers and 1,500,000 male industrial workers (a separate Earle measure limits the work week of 800,000 women), the Earle law: 1) restricted the week to 5½ eight-hour days; 2) permitted so much administrative flexibility that the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry could in effect write its own statute to cover individual cases...
...night of May 4, 1886, a storm began to blow up in Chicago. As the first drops of rain fell, a crowd in Haymarket Square, in the packing house district, began to break up. At eight o'clock there had been 3,000 persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing his talk when a delegation of 180 policemen...
...Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...
...laid down their tools. On that first day they would have been idle anyway, for since 1898 miners have taken a holiday on April 1-named first after U.M.W.'s late great President John Mitchell and now called John L. Lewis Day- to celebrate their winning of the eight-hour day. But a second day dawned without agreement, and now the work stoppage was in dead earnest...