Show HOUR OF L OR AX UiTEBESTlNO COMPARISON MADE BY AJ EM3LISU rUE From a recent report presented to the louse of lords on the two affect ing the hours of adult labor iu various eontlnciital and other countries ous OutilentAl aUI oter cuntrl we gather o large amount of information infor-mation on thIs deeply interesting question and we are confirmed lii our opinion that the average aver-age British workmen are better bet-ter ofT all around than those In any contluentil country We suljoin a few holes doled down in the course of the perual of this paper thinking thej will be read with Interest by all thro who like ourselves s are personally Interested e In problems relating to the hours and conditions of labor Austria Hungary the law limits the duration dura-tion of work in minis to a shift of twelve hours ten only of which must 0 pent In actual ac-tual labor For factory hands the limit Is eleven hours exclusive ofhour fu rest and meal > Sunday rest i to bo observed These provisions pro-visions may 0 suljeet t modifications mod-ifications in certain specified cases of emergency In Hungary there t no general law affecting Die hours of labor and in some casts consequently they rI excessive A days work of ten to twelve hours Lt Doe normal but In some industries and localities the working day extends tends from twelve t fifteen and even eighteen houn Sunday rest Is not prescribed and this factories working on Sundays and holidays a 21 per cent of the whole There is no law In Belgium regulating uJN J bo 1i ulating or limiting 1 thu hoursof adult labor and great variations exists inconsequence din consequence In the mining cn trcl this average day i twelve hours but women 1n often em > Ii > 3 ed thirteen fourteen hours In loading trucks and similar heavy work CabInet makers at Gbent and Brussels often have t work seventeen hours a day Railway guards are often oil duty for fifteen or even nineteen and I half hour at a stretch Brussels tramway drivers driv-ers work from fifteen to coven teen hours dally Bremen from tn ten to seventeen and often bal day bundnjp Brickmakers sixteen hours In summer Ic sugar refineries fineries from twelve to thirteen hon Itnerl Eleven hours Is considered ho average daya labor in the m ority of trades in Belgium There a a number of labor decrees in France but as they mostly affect particular trade no brief general itatement can bu given But this report states thaI as a rule I i maybe factories b said that Frenchmen in are prescntat least fourteen hours out of every twenty four in the thop And i must bu borne In mind tint there i no compultr observance of Sunday Sun-day and no day of habItual rest Neither In German SpaIn bwe den Turkey nor in Denmark or Russia a there any laws limiting thehiuri of labor Iu Russia It Is 1I1U U bbr II RIIt L te UI WUh stilted that they vary from six t ecty hours but in the majority cases estimated at S3 > er cent the lioursof labor are twelve and under Manufactories with twelve hours dally labor number 33S per cent those with eleven hours ItS percent per-cent those with ten hours IS I percent per-cent with eight hours 10 percent with seven hour 04 11 cent and wills six hour 02 percent Night work ispursuedlu247establlsmeuts But thou majority open at 5am and close not later than 9 pm In Saxony there are no laws affecting af-fecting adult labor but the normal working day consists of eleven hours exclusive of Ill Inbwit zriaiid lou law limits the normal working day eu3iounsreduced t ten on Saturdays and holidays Thru are numerous laws lit the United States affecting the hours of labor sulije to various exceptions We can only summarize a few ol these In New York mechanic work eight hours In most cities ol the bUite nearly all mechanics and all connected with the building Stools work nine hours except ex-cept on Saturday when eight hours is thu rule On the street and elevated railroads and in cities of OTer OOJ inhabitants ten hours i the normal dvy In New Jersey hours tango from fiftythree t sixty hours mug In Rhode island ten hours dail Maryland an average of ten hours and the same in Virginia North Carolina Tennessee Arkansas Loulslanaanil Mississippi i where there are however how-ever no legislative enactments In California eight hours I the day limit by statute whIch statute however how-ever is constantly evaded f thai some trades that are unorganized work twelve or fourteen hours daily These examples are selected from a largo number given In the report and they take no account of exceptional excep-tional rasca whleh recognized t > the statutes They abu aptly only to adult labor but there are 1 large number of statutes regulating women and child labor which in some countries 1 very severe On lle whole the organized trades of his country may congratulate Jicmselves on holding the best position posi-tion among the European work ton in the men and second to none mater of hours of laborsecond only Itt remuneration to thatof the working work-ing men in 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