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Show Success With Elgin Hours. An Important English shipbuilding firm, Short Bro. of Sunderland, have recently Issued a report on. tho results of seven yours' experience with the olglil-huur system In their establishment. establish-ment. Under the old system tho men began work nt 0 In thu morning, took half nn hour for break rst at 8 o'clock, half nn hour at noon for lunch, and quit work at 6. Many wero unable to end ura the long hours, and large numbers num-bers of employes regularly lost a por tlon of their wages each week from forced abenco from duty. Now the men get their breakfast before beginning begin-ning work. Thoy start ut half past 7 and finish at 5. Under this plan they not only do raoro work but tbo general gen-eral operation of tho plant Is much moro economical. This has been practically prac-tically tho universal experience where-ever where-ever tho shorter hour experiment bus been tried, either by voluntary action, as in this case or by uniform legal restrictions. re-strictions. From G union's Magazine for February, |