| Show THE EIGHT HOUR MOVEMENT la Is the working day to be of eight hours all round or shall it lie be in one place nine hours hour t in another r twelve and in another five this is a question that is beginning begioni Lg to assume importance it mast must be settled at no distant time though it will scarcely be settled at any particular time which its agitators may fix the date of its settlement eU lement draws nearer and rid nearer every year and the greater filhe the dignity aal patience with which its advocates present their cause catiEs and sod bide their time the faster will come the amelioration for which they contend strikes will only retard it and a resort to force on the part of the laborers is about the only thing that can prevent it it will be a happy time when throughout the length and breadth of the union eight hours for work eight hours for or recreation and eight hours for sleep with twenty foor hours res rest t out of every week shall be the lot of the army of toilers boilers who eat their bread in the sweat of their brow they will be better citizens better workmen better parents tg intelligence will illumine their now too stolid faces and health and happiness find less to hinder binder its enjoyment there will be aa as much work completed and it will be better done the workman will then be a man not what he now is in many places a barely animate thing with only enough of intellect and judgment to obey the kick or the lash of his taskmaster if the working men will bo be governed by A ie iee counsels the dawn of a brighter day will soon break |
