People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Time Ripe for Shorter Day. [ARTICLE]

Time Ripe for Shorter Day.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 3. —The American Federation of Labor has sent out letters to all the affiliating internationals asking them what they propose to do in the way of enforcing the eighthour day rule May 1. The executive council will meet here the last week in this month to consider the answers. President Gompers says that he believes the time is i ipe for the eight-hour day movement in all lines.