Show The shortening of the hours of labor for the toilers is the great achievement of No Limit organized labor All benefits which han come to us through associated effort insurance On in-surance increased wages safety and sanitary sani-tary conditions in the factory fellowship Wkrt or In and fraternity arc all lost in the colossal Hours bum total of good which has accrued and will accrue through the medium of the shorter workday By ARTHUR H I WATSON The overtaxed and exhausted human body weary with long hours of pitiless toil I k would not produce a race equal to that which the second and third generation of trade unionists will bring forth Expansion of horizon liberality of thought education culture and refinement follow surely in the trail of the shorter workday When all of mans recuperative powers are not needed to build up strength for another day of toil there is opportunity for the enjoyment of the pleasanlor things of lifo than the humdrum of the factory field tr store and cheery companionship recreation and study become more apart a-part of our life and life becomes worth living There can be no limit set to bound the future possibilities of till short hour movement If it is necessary to work ten hours a day to produce pro-duce from mother earth the necessities and comforts required by our civilization we must perforce perform it unless we would retrograde to the figlcaf and bow and arrow life of our forbears On the other hand if the march of science and invention makes it possible perform om tasks in two hours per day we expect to enjoy the increased leisure and the possibilities it brings to us rf Organized labor with its slogan of shorter hours is doing more to solve the unemployed problem and to put bread in the mouths of the hungry hun-gry than any other influence i I I |