Show FOR FOB HOURS there have been some highly commendable features developed in the efforts of laboring men and chanice me in n all civilized countries to reduce the number lumber of hours ta lu a working day to that which would be consistent with their general welfare and development mentally meu tally physically and spiritually by these thebe proceeding the eight hour uy has baa been recognized in many places and departments of labor as being a fitting proportion of the time when a man may be required to work for an employer the remaining sixteen hours being regarded as ae necessary for rest and other demands consistent with the of the individual wherever revoir the eight hour day has been made to prevail the arrangement seems to have been suited in many ways to its par pose in practice as well as in theory some people however are aldaya wanting a change from existing conditions many who thought the eight hour system would be good now cota corn plain ehst thc it gives too much time lime for laborers to loaf arund around saloons or other places place not conducive to their welfare they forget forgett the be benefits conferred on working ingmen aaen who are not who are the ones really entitled to 0 o the advantages of the system and profit thereby so bo also there some who now how are agitating for a still further reduction in working time Eight boure are too long sm they cry risks ake it rix of this latter olafs claps are the member ship hip ot of the chicago bricklayers the attitude of ahn organization Is tho the more notable because etwas it was the agency which first obtained the eight hour bout day in chicago the brick bricklayers layen of the windy city bard bad been members of the Inter union but the latter body was not sufficiently decisive deal sivo in its ita action on the reduction jon to eight hours houm so 0 the chicagoans withdrew and started out in tho the movement themselves achieving suo sua coos the latter part of this month the international union of bricklayers holds boldi its ife convention at now new orleans the chicago union has bee apo ap pointed a committee to attend that convention and to propose a roun reunion ioni with the international organization the condition being that the latter will adopt the polton boltey of making six houra a day days daya a work if this proposition ia i not accepted although there are everal leading union men who believe it win wild ibe be the chicago bricklayers will moba ma the move on their own account trual ing to other unions in the buil building dinv trades to follow them as a before it la Is mot ot proposed aed that the demand for Allic actual reduction of hours houn will be made this hla year but will be inaugurated with the he opening of 1896 thir further cutting down of work ing hours finds its ita strongest angest air argument arRu ment in the problem of how bow to deal with the unemployed employed on it is urged that by a shorter borter fl working day employment will le bo given to the idle and a serious evil am averted on the other hand band the reply to ig that by departing from the olgh ight natural equilibrium will be lost and the amount of idle iness Ina reaped under coo trial will render the more pt ing than ever for wages cannot be lone maintained when one fourth of the arnou mouD ot tuf of labor la in cut iff from this aide cornea comes the claim that the unemployed ploy edN problem ban baa its solution in a idly stem that will cause the idlers to obtain from the earth a larger lamer supply of that which ministers minia tera to the coat UP of the be individual thus bettering the general condition cor rather than in a plan which at beat merely distributes the ahe idleness over a broader area if the six gix bour proposition li Is urged with vigor by some of the labor u it ions as aa seems to be probable now from the of many of their leader issuers it will soon become a of in il discussion in other no doubt there in ia a large proportion of trajena union who win will favor the process of ef cutt inix dow do r v working time even beyond six ix hours but there in ia also alao a goodly share abare anu adu perhaps a majority ahu are fur for mr more avaious to have a reasonable limit fixed by general law above which the employer shall not vo u to in his bin requirements and below which the labu laborer reir shall ball not go in his bis de mand meanwhile it to la probable wat that for a time we shall near bear the be slogan ot of a faix ix hour day |