Show For a Shorter Working Day Some very enlightening statements were made before the Civic rrI talon In New York at its meeting yesterday In connection with the muchmooted quesllon of an elhthour working day The statistician of the New York Bureau Bu-reau of Labor A F Weber gave It as his experience that the result of the shorter day was to render workmen work-men more effective Intelligent and Inventive In-ventive ant he added to this his tel lirnonv that a purer family life was lived by workmen under that system Even more emphatic were the state rItuaLs of VicePresident Warburg or the American Economic association who declared that the t actual experiences expe-riences of localities where the shorter hour day his been tried shows that the morals of the community have Improved Im-proved This Is directly in line I with the claims pin forth by worklngmen advocates advo-cates of the eighthour day and It is remarkable because It brings theory and fuel HO closely 5n alliance The ob servallon of scientIsts ant philosophers confirms the practical wisdom of the labor reformers While there must be a limit to the Hhortenlng of the workingday for those who labor with their hands that poll has not yet been reached But all progress that has been mace has been In that direction with most beneficial reHuIts to society In general and advantage ad-vantage in the community Boston Poi t |