Show AA DAIS dals MORK ORK when labor organizes tor for tho the purpose of obtaining a fair wage and proper working conditions it la Is entitled to the support of all right thinking people when it organizes or uses its organizations to restrict production it becomes a menace to the public welfare and merits universal opposition and condemnation the eight hour day met with popular approval on the assumption that with ith the incentive of a shorter day labor would work faithfully and diligently it was not intended that labor should at the same time either actually or relatively become less et cf focient or less productive had the public realized the product of a days labor would thereby be actually and relatively reduced the eight hour day would never have been established except tor for female labor labor Is fed by the products of the ranch and farm the rancher and farmer have no eight hour day crops are neither sown cultivated nor harvested on an eight hour scale nor do they grow and ripen by any artificial formula scale or rule promulgated by man why as was aptly asked by a farmers lion tion should a farmer be compelled to work 88 hours a week to feed a city chap receiving higher wages who works but 44 Is it the divine duty of the farmer because he is not organized to feed the latter because he ile Is organized labor will do well to change its course if it it continues to abuse the eight hour day by slacking on the job while labor in other countries with which we compete Is 13 producing to lull full capacity either our industries must topple and fall or the eight hour day must go in other words no arrangements can long prevail which does not maintain reciprocal relations between volume and cost of production or which does not contemplate and insure that for a full day a pay there shall be rendered an honest days work wo we can succeed neither as an industrial du nation or people it if we are going to spend one third of our time in sleep another in a rocking chair or limousine and the remaining third trying to obtain the greatest amount of pay for the least amount of work no industry no country and no people can long endure or survive the blighting effect of such an economic antithesis |