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Show UNCLE SAM'S CIS WORKING LONG HOURS Facts Revealed in National Capital Show Wilson's Lack of Sincerity. Everyone has-met with the man who is always charming In company, but a sorehead and a grouch in his own i family. There Ib a suggestion of this individual In the fact that while Mr. Wilson publicly proclaims that 'the 8-hour day has the saci!on of this individual in the fact that while Mr. WilBon publicly proclaims that "the 8-hour day has the sanction of society," he not only permits the postal clerks hours, despite the law against it, but that in tho bureau of engraving and printing, almost opposite Mr. Wilson's own windows in the While House, men and women are being worked 10, 32 and even 14 hours a day. There Is a law which prevents a private employer from working women wom-en and girls more than" eight hours a day and in Washington it is rigidly enforced: but when it suits the purpose pur-pose of Crown Prince McAdoo to work the women and girls, as well as the men, in the government's great money factory from S a. m to 8, and 10 and evon 12 p. m It is done without hesl tat Ion, probably on the theory that a crown prince, like a king, "can do no wrong." Because of the extraordinary value of tho product the employes in the bureau of engraving and printing aro kept locked in, and as President Wilson Wil-son and his son-in-law .sit on the south porch of the White HouBe, smoking their cigars of a summer evening, eve-ning, they can gaze across the wide lawn and se the brilliantly-lighted money factory where tho laws designed de-signed to protect women from overbur-densome overbur-densome labor and to prevent men from toiling more than eight hours are so frequently and so flagrantly violated. |
