South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 15, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 January 1920 — Page 4

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'JJTIIAj fix-hour working day bo Xf yf a" pconoralc risibility? ' On all BiJra is heurd thp demand of tho tv or kinsman for a shorter work day. Irora tho 12 hours of labor which his grandfather called a. day's work ho has, after many bitter struggles, euccecdrd In lopping off two to four hours. k Today It Is generally conceded that e!ht hours of hard work arc enough for ono day If th efficiency of ihr worker Is to bo maintained. In the majority of trades the 43-hour week has Ion;? preTalled. A world devastated by war Is today crying aloud to Its workers and its manufacturers to produce more goods. "Keep th mills, the mines, the factories hard at work producing tho raw materials and thft mamifactured good which are needed, and needed badly. Give us more food, more cotton, more wool, more heather, more steel give us moro of everything! That 1 the appeal, the supplication. ven, of th world today. Will it b? possible to answer that appeal If a short work day la granted to labor? Or 1 It possible that a ehort work day will result In Increased efficiency, so that tiro man who produced a certain quantity of manufactured product or raw material In eight hours will b-.-able to produce the same quantity, eleven more, by working harder in six Lours? He ITonldnl Wort. And when will the demands for shorter hours end? Will all trade? finally b grartcd a 30-hour wrck. or is It tho ambition of tho workinmaa to emulate a well-known character In Sussex county, Dilawart who eiacerely believed that work was an affliction with which some malignant duvil had curbed the human race, and who steadfastly refrained from woru throughout his life! But he died when h wan O year.old an age hen nemo of the world';; ffxeAtest nun have accomplished superhuman tusks. This eccentric Delawarean wo shall call him Jonas Drown for purposes of

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mind, not bo much a qur stlcn of hours as It is a question of intensive eSort That's what counts and It is in intensive effort that we have to Increase, "The laborer Is thinking of his work in terms of hours. Ho is suspicious of any plan that would result in more intensive work. And I can not but realire that It is a natural suspicion. In times past he has been worked almost to death. But, nevertheless, intensive work means increased efficiency, and Is necessary if we ar to have a phorter work day. "I think a six-hour day is sufficient

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way to get them but to work Larder "When the manufacturers change feven. They say this country wtats

for them. Wo don't Droduce enoueh their Dresont arbitrary attitude and 100.Ö0O.GOO tf;ns of msl a war. t.pv

in certain occupations. The miners food vrhy Largely because working meet labor on fair gTound th labor- declare that In only comparatively

hours have ten cut down, rc3ultlns era will do their part for incrcasx'd few plants and on comparatively fev

aro entitled to a six-hour day. Their work is dangerous, it lias been poorlj' pall in the past; it islrty, disagreeable, hard work, that saps energy. Six

hours of it Is enough. I would Fav

in les.3 food producta and higher production prices.

"When the American people realize

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"Hey, go 'round to tho back build- eee, old residents will tell you.

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railroads la tho attention given to the coal Ümt the subject demands, but they believe the high costa of coal and of everythirj enrcrinc into manufacturing will force a reform that will be of lasting benefit to the country.

lishln Hard Work. Jur.as lirov.n wa.s fond of pike hsh-

identlty was fortunate in having a Q fruently visited the nelghwcalthy father, who set him up as the boring stream until some of his frivnJi proprietor of a wtdl-riocked general told him he worked harder at fiihin store in the village in which he lived, than Foms cf them did at plowins and

that six hours' work was enough for that a hlßhcr "tandard of living d--the women who work in laundries as anrts more tours of ork" 1 th,n',c

Olaring at the villager. Jonas' half laundries are conducted at the present will choo the high standard ,o from m rnrkin rhair. nd with time. Their energy is also sarped. rather R lower standard with

mnm rfnti thnn a hnA P in a Hut tho conditions thai no prevail IGWer co"-

rear he cast his jack-knife far down could bo improved so that the people "But to have men willingly work teaching or endeavoring to teach the iaore ovosltlon or cossct!Uoa from

in landrics cicld easily work eight hours mo employer must ma..e public how to get more out of coal oa aaa w,!r'Y-

HE Eecmingly incongruous campaign in v. hlch coal men are engaging of urging uron the

public economy in tho use of coal and ccrr'cd they ar0 DeetIn nore

Co far as the coal operators ar con-

But that didn't put ambition Into planting. The horrified man threw Jonas. down his pike hook sni retired to his

He selected a comfortable rocking rocking chair. He never fished a

the road. "Ain't I the old fool!" he muttered. Uut all men ar? not Hire Jonas Crown. If there are men who w'ant high wag: 3 for littlo work, and that work not done well, there aro al?o

hours. Driver wuriinj couujuuls. lüuj .i u needs explaining. "A locomotive engineer can not be face to face with that problem now. 0a filirfa0t) lt wouJd Retzn ßelf ixirecteil to run his engine for eight They must choose between being fair 3ntc.rc3t ouid lrnp?1 tte CMaJ opera. hours day after day without feeling to their employes or granting fewer" tor8 to haVQ th9 publlc u thß largegt the great nervous strain. But a rail- hours of labor. possible quantity of coal. As a matroad conductor or brakemsm is not "I think that some organization tpr of fart th" mil mv r-,.,

nfinv nor 1 on I've, ve-" iTpr . waiv. ftfr uaiij ur n no ile 1 alt subjected to the same strain and can. might come wht-reby the workman coal cheaper or its uses will be revcar CU the accumulated W-calth Of I tVnrrfn. T,.or iMef t cSnnl,-? aiv crts nr nhnr r,f th nrnflü,' f thn ttr'f TT

oil has made considerable headway. Eome of the big ell companies having stabllhed station there for replying big manufacturiug concerns and entering into long-term contracts to supply the users with the fuL Oil la cheaper than coal and eeier to handle, but the costs cf transforming pow-

chair from the stock, had a boy take that

it out on the porch, and there he T1,Jt to nwnv lhA f!mft hrt ,:5TlM, fathrr bos Tr3 to work tls that, rrr.erallv urvaklnff. a six-hour business in which he and his employer Th rnhll- if it ftn, v' er lant3 frorn coaJ tura1- to oil

spent his time from that day on. He t0 whittle long, curly shavings from Jng ours va p37 RS 11 day should be established in all occu- are mutually engaged. I do not mean opportunity afforded by instruction turEn? ere tea77 announced publicly that he had never blocks of white pine. He became an 1 e a3 ljad to" m patlons that are harardous. that are that he should share in the profits given, can get more out of tho coal it Hngland oiTen a good Seid for worked and never intended to work, expert at thl3. The boys of the villa;-, Ia orilcr t0 lcok al tL!sf Eatter 01 nerve-trying and that take more than alone but that a proportions share buys. If coal is cheapened by increa- tha oil people, as there are no coal nvery little while a customer would vrould stand open-mouthed watching 5horter nours and its relation to pro- a reasonable amount of energy from cf the products turned out are his, and ing its power through the elimination fced3 nearby and the oil people can lay

disturb him. hir.i uh'ttle. Ar.d then some villas.' uuu,üa Iru'a oitPre. anRitv., vt.. , . frvzrred in them, he benefits br their sale. If the em- nf wnstM. thr rnnl rr.in will hr. r-r'p thvir fuel down at the sorts without

"Any sugar today. Jor.r?" wag said in h'.3 hearing that if he wr!tcr i3 oiag to present several Ve yant Too nck. ployer la to etop the egitaticn that is more secure in his position. That Is much expense. Transportation ex0h, damn ltl 1 suppose I h;tnv Go would vork as hard as a carpenter Tlcws of tte Question. ..j)ut j 0 LQt thIck ttat (be six.jiour 0:ng on he must co-operate with his all there 1j to iL pensea from the coal fields cf Pennsylia and help yourself." he did with his Jack-knife he could -n Economist's Opinion applied to industry generally, men. And then the wcrkingTiian will Chemical engineers declare lt would vaula. West Virginia and other terriA nan with a jug might walk along easily build a house for every man. Dr. Simon X. ration has this to eay would work out. not otject to longer hours, cecauso fc be easier if proper methods were cm- tory handcaps the coal man. the read. Jonas would know hat he woman and child In the village. Jonas on the subject: "Our standards of life are rising all will know that Li3 work will help hira ployed in the burning of coal to get as Nov he feafa the oil piop'.e may Inwantcd, and it was his custom to call heard him, and h!3 wrath and discom- "Tho great gain to be mado in our the time. We want moru things to realize a high standard of life for him- much heat and power out cf six tons vade other svctlcna heretofore conout: . - fiture were worth going many miles to life by increased production iJ, to my make life pleaant and thre Is no self and his family. of ccal a3 now are obtained out cf trolled by tho coal people.

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