Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 21 | The Changing Workday

4 4 J I The rhe Changing Workday I 0 4 I As AJ a me measure sur of ot industrial achievement Ju Julius H. H Barnes arnes chairman of ot the board of- of tho Ii chamber h i.- i. of ot oft commerce of tho United States points to the 2 changIng chang changing ing workday in lit tho the perspective of or r a half century century- less than a n. lifetime f Going ba back k t to the thc newspapers of ot fifty y years ars ago ago h lie 5 says 1 there is Js an J i Interesting t r sidelight advertisement of ot the elevated roads of ot New York on which the traffic was made mado made madet t to bear what it had to to by charging ten cents fare faro between and a a. a. a m m. arid and ten cents between iH 00 and d 1 00 p. p ni m. m Between times Umes yo you c could uld travel t for n a nickel cl Think of ot the the thew w working conditions of or fifty years ago which made the morning rush hour of at city transit lt start at al 5 50 O a a. a l m m. and en en end as s early ns as 30 a. a m. m Those are nrc the tIo hours hours' toda today at which you could be bo surd t ta to rind find a i. seat The evening rush hour which then extended nd d to 7 p. p I ni Is hI today finished b by 6 1 p. p m. m The shorter working day dRo which this so vividly illustrate not only marks conquest of extremo l' l in daily occupation b but t It It-IS It in k beginning to be intelligently understood by bl industry itself that reasonably rea rca balanced working hours hours' and reasonable Jels leisure ro with adequate wage scales cales are the very ri heart of oe universal ers use use and and- buying which h maintains in th themselves In the working hours hour of ot that early day the aut would have vc lacked Jacked n. n market a-market not ilot alone because wage scares scales had no margin for for the the- purchase of ot such 0 a modern day co convenience h buL t because be bc be because cause of ot a working day which had no time to US uso or or enjoy such uCh li a a. facility and a LL working d day y that left little strength or energy except pt for bed 01 or tion Uon As 5 early as 1880 we had bad gasoline but it was was' worthless for invention had as as yet found no way to use it