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SIX-HOUR WORKDAY SOUGHT NOWLABOR LEADERSTATE FEDERATION SECRETARYADVOCATES CHANGE.Joplin Official Believes it “DreuImpossible of Realization”—I'niversal 8-Hour Law Is Goal.’Advocacy of a six-hour work day by John T. Smith, secretary of tho Missouri Federation of Labor, evoked considerable * comment yesterday from men prominent i In local labor circles. Smith, in an address in Kansas City, said organized laborhad brought about the eight-hour day and it would, in time, achieve a six-hour lt;day.SpeAking of the six-hour day proposal, | an official of the Joplin Trades Assern- , bly said last night:“I have read Mr. Smith s remarks and, I while 1 would like to see conditions to readjusted that everyone would have to 1 work but six hours a day. I believe it is J a dream impossible of realization. To my j mind, in most pursuits, the eight-hour ^ day is as nearly an ideal condition as we 1 can expect to realize.EUcht-Hour Law Satisfactory.Eight hours daily for work, eight hours * for recreation and eight hours for sleep, cIs a pretty good arrangement. If such an C arrangement could be made universal it e would result in happiness and permanent contentment for the great body of workers“There an some vocations, howevein which I believe a six-hour day is both fair and practicable—callings which impose a heavy strain on men, and in which a shorter day would greatly benefit them.•‘Generally speaking, tollers are working for a universal eight-hour day, ar t we expect to bring it about ultimately. The last legislature passed a nine-hour law for women, which was a step in the right direction, but we should have an eight-hour law for women, and we expect to get It at the coming saaaioniic?1IabVi• »otlu
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Dec 03, 1912
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