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FROM THE ARCHIVE1855·New York, New York

EIGHT HOURS WORK VS. TEN HOURS WORK

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
EIGHT HOURS WORK VS. TEN HOURS WORK
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We a nt 226 Deo 26 1868 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER eight hours work as he had paid for ten hours work to be this. That it has greatly increased the cost nd retarded the progress of buildings. That the idea that as much labor can be performed in eight as in ten hours has proved to be utierly fallacious indeed the experience of the office justifies the assertion that less labor per hour has in most vases been obtained under the eight than under the ten hour system and that the law has increased the cost of public buildings from twenty to twentyfive per cent beyond the amount for which he 4D copsent to be held responsible. He adds with thorough good sense.

I can see no reason why the price of laborshould be regulated by law any more than that of provisions or other merchandise or why the mechanic should re elve more protection thah agricultural laborers whose pay is less and who work more hours. This is in strict conformity with what is said by the superintendent of one of the most important public works in. New England who reports that in so far as the law.

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