This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...with every show of being right, that the members of the association are doing excellent work and as much of it as when they were working nine and ten hours. " They are working steadier," he says, " and Blue Monday is now unknown in our trade. They are more attentive, more in earnest." The effect on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...with every show of being right, that the members of the association are doing excellent work and as much of it as when they were working nine and ten hours. " They are working steadier," he says, " and Blue Monday is now unknown in our trade. They are more attentive, more in earnest." The effect on the lives of the men, Mr. Duncan claims has been almost everywhere marked: They seek new entertainment, they are in evidence in drawing and modelling schools in the evenings of the winter season, and conspicuous in athletics in summer. Some of our members have developed into great baseball stars in the major leagues. Boating, swimming, long rural walks, bicycle riding, and occasionally a week of vacation are in evidence. Homes are happier and our members and those dependent upon them and associated with them are better fed, and better clad than at any time in our trade history. Mr. Duncan claims that the granite cutters give a full eight hours, that is, they do not arrive at 8, and take the first half hour to get into their working clothes and gather up their tools, nor do they stop at a quarter or half an hour before closing time to get ready to leave. "Our constitutional regulations and the terms of our agreement," he writes, "provide and require that our members work eight hours five days of the week and four hours on Saturday. Employers invariably require our members to work ' from whistle to whistle! ' There are no complaints or contentions upon that subject, as our members recognise the necessity of being at their work promptly at the time the whistle blows, and they equally remain at work until the same whistle announces the quitting hour. " I am of the opinion that where there...
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