Wright. Commissioner of Labor. which shows that the hours of labor per day are. in Belgium. from ten and a half to twelve. in France and Germany. nearly all twelve. in Great Britain. from ten to twelve. and in Italy. twelve hours. Yet it is believed that our immigrants from these countries.notcontented with the shorter ten hoursthey find as the usual custora of America. are among the chief agitators of an eighthour law. although many of them are receiving double the wages they ever before received for a day of twelve hours. Trueborn. live Americans are not hungering for an eighthour day. but for more work and more pay. The eighthour day would be unequal. unjust. and undemocratic unless it could be made practically to include all mankind. women as well as men. and then sterner habits of life. a more frugal diet. coarser apparel. and fewer of the general comforts of the present highly civilized age would be imposed as the outcome of this latest edict of the lew World. if the scheme would be wretched lor the whole of our people. it would be wretched proportionately for a part.
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Immigrants from Europe are agitators who are not content with the shorter work hours in America and are pushing for an eight-hour law.