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Show Big Wages for Spare Time. Factory workers in an Ohio town, last year, earned money during spare time at the rate of 92 cents an hour. That would be $7.36 for an eight-hour day, $220.80 a month, $2,649.60 a year. That is a good deal more than a fair profit on idle hours. What were they doing? Working In home gardens, growing vegetables that they and their families ate. The manufacturing concern for which they worked during regular hours kept an accurate record of the time the men spent working In the gardens and the value of the garden stuff grown. This matter Isn't news, particularly. It is nearly nine months old. But It does 6eem worth mentioning just now by way of calling the attention of the Industrial workers of the nation to the fact that time spent working home gardens Is not time thrown away, that the hour they spend morning or evening eve-ning working the garden yields better returns than any hour they put in In the factory. |