Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — Powderly and the Bight Hour Plan. [ARTICLE]

Powderly and the Bight Hour Plan.

Mr. Powderly has written a long letter to Kwiglita throughoutthe coon try, in which he urges a dispassionate discussion of the eight hoar plan with employers. Politics should not be dragged date bo set for the change in time. A practical plan should be perfected, by mutual discussion, satisfactory to both sides and thus bring about a better feeling between the two clssßes. Many men, he says, are too purse-proud to disc ass matters with their employes, bnt happily these are few and the day is coming when these men will have no standing among sensible men. Some one has said that "History never repeats itself.” But then History never voted in St Louis.—De Menil, St.