Show HOURS OF LABOR prom from a recent report presented to the house of lords on the laws affecting the hours of adul labor iu in various continental and other countries we gather a large amount of information i on this deeply interesting question and we are confirmed in our opinion that abut ahe average british workmen are better off all around than those in any continental country we subjoin a few notes dotted down in the course of the perusal of this paper thinking they will be read with interest by all those who like ourselves are personally interested in problems relating to the hours and conditions of labor in austria hungary hangary the law limits the duration of work in mines to a shift of twelve hours ten only of which must be spent in actual labor for factory hands the limit is eleven hours exclusive of hours tor for rest and meals sunday rust root is to be observed these provisions may be subject to modifications in certain specified cases of emergency in hungary there is no general law af adlet ting the hours of labor and in some cases consequently they are excessive A days work of ten to twelve hours is tim the normal but in some industries and localities local lUes the working day extends from twelve to fifteen and even eighteen hours sunday rest ls is not prescribed and the factories wor working kingon on sundays and holidays axe are 25 15 per cent of the whole there to is no law in belgium regulating or Jimi limiting ting the hours of adult labor and great variations exists exist in consequence in the mining districts the average day is twelve hours but women are often employed thirteen or fourteen hours in loading trucks and si similar heavy work cabinet makers at ghent and brussels often have to work seventeen hours a day railway guar s are often on duty for fifteen or even nineteen aud and a half hours at a stretch tret cb brussels tramway drivers work from froid fifteen to seventeen hours daily bremen from ten to seventeen and often half day sundays brick makers sixteen hours in summer IP ar sigr re flurries fineries fin fLu eries hours eleven hours is considered the average days labor in the majority of tr tra deain adain belgium there we are a number of labor decrees in france but as they mostly affect particular trades no brief general statement caa be given but the report states that as a rule it may be said that frenchmen in factories are present at least fourteen hours out of every twenty four in the shops and it must be borne in mind that there is no compulsory observance of sunday and no day of habitual rest neither in germany spain sweden turkey nor in denmark or russia are there any laws limiting the hours of labor in russia it is stated eliab they vary from six to twenty hours but in the majority of cases estimated at 80 per cent the hours of labor are t twelve w el ve and u under uder manufactories Manu factories with twelve hours daily labor number per cent those with eleven hours per cent those with ten hours per cent with eight hours 16 per cent with seven hours 04 per cent and with six eix hours 02 per cent night work is pursued in establishments but the minority majority open at 5 aam am and close not later than 9 pm in saxony there are no laws jaws affecting adult labor but the normal working day consists cou of eleven hours exclusive of meals in switzerland the law limits the normal working day to eleven hours reduced to ten on saturdays and holidays there ari ara numerous laws in the united states affecting the hours of labor subject to various exceptions we can only summarize a few ol 01 these in new york mechanics work eight hours in most cities of the state nearly all mec hanus P and all connected with the building trade work nine hours except on saturday when eight hours is the rule on the street and elevated railroads and in cities of over inhabitants ten hours is the normal day in new jersey hours range from fifty three to sixty hours per weel week in rhode island ten hours houra daily in maryland an average of ten hours and the same iu in virginia north carolina tennessee arkansas louisiana and i mississippi where there are however no legislative enactments in california eight hours is the day limit by statute which statute however is constantly evaded so that some trades that are unorganized work twelve or fourteen hours daily these examples are selected from a large lare number given in the report aud and they take no account of exceptional ases tases t which are recognized by the statutes they also apply only to adult labor but there are a large number of statutes regulating women and child labor which in sowe sonje countries is very severe on the whole the organized trades of this country way may congratulate themselves on holding the best position among the european workmen arid and second to none done in the matter of hours of labor second only in remuneration to work ing men in comparatively new countries like the states and our australian 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