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...President of the University of Washington by a Hartley-packed board of regents three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The squall began during the War when Mr. Suzzallo of the Labor Industries Board urged that Mr. Hartley, then a potent lumberman, should put his burly lumberjacks on an eight-hour day. The two men did not become any better friends when Mr. Hartley became Governor in 1925 and smashed into Mr. Suzzallo's scheme for a bigger, better and more expensive state education program...
...President, had crossed his trail years ago, during the War, when he, Hartley, then a private citizen deep in timber operations, was having trouble with labor. The academician, as a member of the Labor Industries Board, had the audacity to suggest that timber operators put their crews on an eight-hour schedule, as in many another industry. In 1924, after Mr. Hartley's election and during his campaign for a superboard to manage all state education (instead of various boards of regents) Dr. Suzzallo again appeared in the political forest and blocked the trail. The legislature passed, over...
...182Were informed by Viscount Cecil that the Government would not seek immediate ratification of its anti-strike bill, because certain (Yorkshire) mine owners had refused to offer their men what the Cabinet deemed adequate wages on the basis of the eight-hour day contemplated in the bill...
...German generation has been far less physically fit than the youth of previous generations. I blame this on the influence of the War. Because of this a system has been established in Germany whereby, a teacher must take his students, between the age of six and 19 for an eight-hour hike once each month...
When Mr. K.R. Kingsbury, President of the Standard Oil Co. (Calif.), appeared before the Senate Investigation Committee a few years ago, he gave testimony to the effect that, within six months after the inauguration of the eight-hour work day, the general efficiency and ost of operation had been greatly benefited by the change, in spite of the very large increase in labor expense...