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Show SII02TA7GTii DAY vs. nncc suiqps Plea of Levering I I:n j.i Support of President Px3seveirsIieo. CHICAGO, June IS. Employer who agree with President Roosevelt tn his anti-race suicide ideas can do much, to advance the cause by' granting their em- filoyees an eight-hour work day. This Is he belief of the members of Typographical Typographi-cal union No. IS, who say the fact has been demonstrated In their own experiences. experi-ences. The Typographical union "made public ?resterday a report which contains much nterestlng material on the subject. The official of the union profess to have established, es-tablished, among other things, a close relationship re-lationship between the large family and the short work-day. Bine September 1. when the eight-hour schedule was first put into effect In the printing shops In Chicago, there has been a remarkable Increase In-crease in the birth rate among the compositors' com-positors' families. The total number of births reported during dur-ing the period Is twenty-four, which represent rep-resent a 15 per cent better showing than appeared for the preceding ten months. |