Word: labors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Gunton, Wealth and Progress, 240-265, 355-382; Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, 519-522; Report of Illinois Bureau of Labor...
...eight hour system wherever introduced has been a success.- (a) In Australia: Dilke, 149-150, 152 (see general references).- (b) In the United States: experience of the United States government, etc.: Report of Illinois Bureau of Labor...
...eight hour system should be adopted by law.- (a) Intelligent legislation better than violent agitation.- (b) Law needed to overcome inertia of employers and to secure uniformity of application: Uniform Hours of Labor, 138-139; Report of the Illinois Bureau of Statistics, 1886, p. 467.- (c) Law should be passed early in Massachusetts since short hours attract skilled and cotented labor, making intelligent and industrious citizens: Uniform Hours of Labor...
...eight hour system not economically disadvantageous.- (a) For the manufacturer, since competition regulates and production limits wages: Walker, Polit. Econ. 263.- (b) For the laborer, since by greater energy he can maintain former production: Report of Illinois Bureau of Statistics, 477-478.- (c) Lessened production pro rata not disadvantageous to capital, labor or state, since unemployed, previously supported by others, now become self-supporting: Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Question: "Resolved, That an eight hour labor law should be passed in Massachusetts...