Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — The Workers. [ARTICLE]

The Workers.

In an article on how labor can aid in the war, advising longer hours, increased production, etc., the Industrial Economist says: “According to the census there are at present about 30,000,000 workers in the United States, Including all over the age of ten. The figures submitted by the secretary of the American Federation of Labor some time ago show about 1,847,000 persons working on an eight-hour basis in the United States, and of this number 475,000 were either federal, state, county or municipal employees. Since that time the number of those working on an eight-hour basis has Increased, and today there is a minimum of 2,000,000 workers operating on an eight-hour basis, and these 2,000,000 workers are probably the ones who will be very directly concerned with producing that which the government needs through the various factories, mills, mines, etc., throughout the country.”