The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-14
acknowledgement:
.pTIcLE FOR WORKING
An A"ii'M MEN.
nednrn Hours OF Labor.

How to Reduce Hours Of LaO0t'
From be American Working i People, r,o,es,v
', TbsrS b much money spent a y enSc
Ine[S ~ = avail 70 preach temperance
i!,nSn,, or lecture men on thSir auI.e aoS -
, Ssil,osISs ~ and to society. They know ,
tasn a sb,n0s already How can we MAKE J.
nee s, sb .I How did those become Det
y! msI IN, S ne now our best and most su a,
I Istu M mspl The answer Is, they Save 9
, s esrpipCs and probably inve gIIl
. .IsT ThIS & the secret Of success L ,In
!, Ma pricc Of success. Men are G ;I.,sa i
a,iiV ,svine what Is It TO save the niue ! !
o ul0 Ssyeii / tried. The men who sLan !,
Snt il society did not ial <, t ~ wSy
Thew The saved what they could. Insy ns WI
r sS They added cent 70 cent ana :
SoIISr 10 dollar and soon there was y Y
uol,Gt n,Scsio nut i. Money, capital y !.
sIwsys n demand and those VINO nave u
reap the benefit .,.,.. w,s,sd there
.a 1t Ina ~ ny milllonaires. Men complain
" Mon lone Sours Tor work and small wages
r. , iS were no earnings wasted, there
wouiS be les hours Of work and better
w ~S Thousands Of people wonder
T6y The great portion Of humanity wor !
AZ nncb and 80 hard for a living. 1t Is
a. enigma 10 them. They seek an ex'
Manhattan for II from the pulpit and The
1jesk. These reply ambiguOusly. They
,eek consolation for It In christianity
and seek amelioration through that ~
strunentality. But they begin at the
wong end. These instrumentalities are
DoTeFless until We perform the conditions
Siysn. What arc theyI Thousands Of
n men who work hardSspend money inJldi'
cIcusly, wastefully. It Is the Saturday
nights which keeps us poor. suppose
men were not to expend a dollar waste
f1Ily what would follow9 That they
oo1Id live without work as long as that
norljop would last them which they
Toold spend wastefully? Suppose out Of
months wages q man waste In drink,
Or il any other way, one.tenth Of what he
ans Now he works twenty.siX days
in HE month. Suppose it takes oil he
ANS 10 keep him, including bis ten per
ceuL Of waste. Let him save this ten per
reuL and be could get along with twenty.
lbee and half days work instead Of
tVen,y.,lx, as In that time he could earn
y much money as he formerly spent for
Ne actual benefit of his family. II he
worked ten hours day there would be
twenty-five hours o month saved, or about
~ hour day, which would enable him
% work nine hours a day instead Of ten
and earn as much as he did before for his
iInily. This Is the best way oil coming
IoWn 10 the eight or nine hour system.
Then again, Il q man could earn as much
in nine hours to keep his family as his
family got when he worked ten hours,
smother valuable result follows, that he
can do as much in those nine hours as he
6merly did in len and he would, conse.
qeuntly, in addition to working only nine
hours day, earn ten per cent more than
heLid when he worked ten hours a day.
Strange as this is, 1t is true, and 1t is lust
here that those men who make and save
get The advantage over those who don't.
There Is another point. Good men
EhO do work and save and spend no
money fOolishly or wastefully, must work
bfthe same wages as those who don't
aTe. The competition Of labor estab.
shs the same rate Of wages for all and
that competition fixes the rate at those
wages paid 10 men who waste.
Hence, although one or a hundred may
ave, yet they cannot get the wages which
EOuld be paid them provided all were
swing. They must work for as low wages
All work as hard as though they were
iDj0dlCiouS In their expenditures. To
generallze these thoughts, every dollar
wasted makes wages that much lower
sud makes men work that much longer
6r Ihesame pay. Now, how can we bet
Ir Ousdves.
WeCan do ii in this way: Let US stop
thinking beer or any unnecessary drink.
Lells keep our money in our pockets
lIISusan wants new bonnet or another
barrel Of flour, or Tommy wants his first
pair o. boots. When next pay comes we
Will find we have more money in our
pockets than we had last time; pay day
Ater, still more, and so on; that Is, we will
have what we wouldn't have If we spent
nat the Fourth Ward House." or Tony
tnOyourmoney's ten pin alley. These
swings would enable US to afford to stop
oa work two or three or four or even
more dsysevery month so far as we our
sIVs were concerned; or in other words
Laey would enable US to lessen the dura.
tOn oil a days work by an hour or per.
maps an hour and q half. We could earn
Sm much In that time as would keep our
aalIy as well as We now do in ten hours.
LNl every man count up how much he
SS'es every week; then let him count
now long that would support him with.
Oli work. that will enable him to tell how
much less he could work every day, and
ne could DO as much in the lever hours
" Aoot as in the many. The true way,
therefore, ITO save. That makes a man
10 ameasare independent oil work, other
%aemS OF reducing hours Of labor will
gP2n ttial fail. In England 1t has been
inherent Tor there Tree trade has been
T maintained BY compelling the people TO
EOLE more hours and harder than Justice