| Show THE EIGHT HOUR HOU R DAY IN SCOTLAND TUB compulsory eight hour day does not find favor among scotch working men at the trades union congress held in glasgow last lant week delegates were pre present 81 ent A resolution in favor of an eight hour day to be enforced by statute law was lost loot that is it if the law applied indiscriminately to all trades but it favored a resolution allowing such trades as objected to eight hours bourn to be exempt from the operation of the law by a majority of fifty I 1 hat abat Is they favored what might be termed in this country a local option lawn law w applied to trade organizations however the action of the indicates indicate that the scotch workingmen look at this issue in a conservative light and yet are not opposed to reform where it would prove prore beneficial and practicable |
