Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-06 | Page 4 | The Day's Work

I THE DAY'S WORK. ' i t , .'.;... . " , . I When the eight-hour day was first proposed, big employers of labor sought to discourage the movement, but backed by the labor unions the shorter day gradually spread over the country. Recently Recent-ly a study of the results obtained under the eight-hour and ten-hour day was made by the U. S. Public Health Service, and the data gathered gath-ered in many standard factories since 101J is summarized as foi-', foi-', lows: j. The outstanding feature of the eight-hour clay is I steady maintenance of output, whereas the outstanding fea-! fea-! ture of the ten-hour system is decline of output. 2-. Under the eight-hour day lost time b reduced tu a minimum. Under the ten-hour schedule, work ceases regularly regu-larly before the end of the spell, and lost time is frequent. " 3. Under the ten-hour system, the workers seem artificially arti-ficially to restrict their efforts to keep pace with the less efficient workers. On the contrary, under the eight-hour i system the output varies more nearly according to the in-1 in-1 dividual capacity to labor. I 4. When there, is a reduction of output, due to fatigue, there is a rise in the number of accidents; that is; in the last I hours of the 10 or 12-hour day, in spite of employes slowing 1 ' up in work, more accidents-occur, j The studies on which these positive conclusions arc based were made in'modern factories, employing such a large number of workers work-ers as to make any conclusions reached apply to industry in general. And the machinery, product and processes in the ten-hour plan ; were sufficiently similar to the eight-hour plan, so that the compari-I compari-I son is an accurate one. , There could be no stronger backing to the claim that working-men working-men have always made that the shorter workday is the more efficient effi-cient one. Jt is an answer that might even .-jar judge Gary, except for the fact that his nerves are made of steel. i1 '