Show V THE LABOR QUESTION rn IN TIM THE massachusetts legislature LEGISLA after a jull full hearing of employers cm and 6 operative vc the he committed committe 6 of the massachusetts house have reported upon the ae ight eight hour boun project the majority of the committee I 1 mr amasa walker and air wm I 1 lyde hyde report adversely they leit erale tho the arit ante but ut ignored principles i ales of political economy they say that t the matter of hours of labor like that of ahl rate of wages must bo be left to the regulation of demand and supply and is not a proper subject ot ol legislation the they y point out to workingmen that their real grievance is the Ahe false cu rieney in which they aro ro paid mr mn E K rogers dissents aud and urges the pas passage sae of bf a law upon the subject ranking making ng ten h haars hoars ours a legal days labor in factories and on farms acx and eig eight ht hours in mechanical employments the committee is unanimous in in recommending that increased efficiency be given to the laws I 1 the employment of children between ten and fourteen that all factory operatives under eighteen shall only work sixty hours a week ort anten ten hours ft a day that ono one hour a day shall be allom ed fordin ner that a special inspector of labor shall bo be appointed to protect the interests of the working 61 classes asses and that a bureau of statistics bo be established for the purpose of collecting andi and malan mal making an avAil availably ablo all facts relating to tho the industrial do du 8 M and social interests |