New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
The Sunday Holiday

OF general Interest are he fsrA
tions concerning SgEday holidays ?
the three-shift system Vhleh gTti
every man an opportunity % enicy hii
church and his family % Sunday yiit'
out involving the sxpsnss q ne @neAi'
ing gang on the waste due V ieut.
ting down the open hearth fernas' 8
the week end.
One method Of srTanging ths hear
80 IS 70 accomplish this may Dc ce'
scribed as folloETi ~
Crew 40. works from nithlshi e
8 a. N. the frst week, from : P r
70 midnight the second week ifor
a M. 10 Z 0. a.. the third. Crew ~
? and crew SO. 3 work the ether eeliA
when the weekend ehangs Of isih
occurs:
Crew No. / Eets from 8 q =. q
Saturday until 4 p. n. On sens.l
free-thirty-tEo hours. THIS ere4 y.
ali dav Saturday ard al Sunday 1nti I
D M 20 be With his family, Or % 9
10 church, or both. Each crew e1lsp
this freedom every third vssL
Crew No. 2 gets from midnif1i =
Saturday until midnight On sss'.l
and crew No. 5 gets from ?. =.
sunday until I p. m. on honchy' ~
gives Il Sunday afternoon aitef . sli
ali sunday evening for church '''
family.
This weekend crew system give, 't
crew longer daylight houn q Nol- I,
Sunday than either Of ne otsst ls. 49, -
but each crew takes this sh1t u -
cession, 80 Il comes only once ~,
three weeks FOR each man. i esn
vsried n desired, 50 that crew No,
comes 70 work az 10 ?. y. on aA'Is.. -.
and quits az noon on eenoaF 49,.
No. / relieves at thst tine. 80
variations are possible, seeerai1s 81
which suits the men themselves -. -
By this system each nan vofAs 'iF
six hours a week. A~g
Twice In every thres veen go ...-
works one continuous shhs q ,.g
hours. This is severe, but nos go
as much 80 as working twelve ~.
day for six days, and Is 49,
provement on the twenV-i.
weekend shift which Il rel
sixteen.hour shift has not ~.
rraetlcs 70 be exhaustive whe.
work only ffty-six total bean a.,
and when Il Is either preeedes g.
ty-two hours Of rest OF si,e ~
bv twenty.four hours OF ~
Neutrality-suspicious. shift i s io.a-,.i I, s,r.i
only twelve hours Of rest ~. y sssD
every second week ini1ssa
'nlTp TS. ~SfSii SiSi,Ion Of tvsnty-fgu, hsai, I.
into ten or nine hour pefieo,. !.
diese,i. natter This fact, eonn'..is ~
S,ith tbs isck Of snihusiasm ~ o.. -
part Of managers q ,.S eoo1.S IA isbcr in
tion plants, and. ine,s'' .s-osrt. for
many instances, partly ~. .ilrins.
the slowness with whien ttkss
lion os twelve.hour xcf. .v - ~,s
nl.c. y h also true that n,ns ,....i +
as"'s ~ e.,ti,nors WORK ere enpio's- y.
watching equipment f.yhss $500 ~,
ing great quantities oi "a. ~, ~ ~
50 that the physical '.i'l- 'l.-..ir,.,srr
lessened efficiency Of - ~
day are not as great as en- - ..'-'-,,r,
Of dav work. This, no doper ", q
for the almost universal 80, ~
making the duty Of shift veI, v. ,,.p
bo,rs iorc.r rather than ~ AZ.
sber..- Ss ,bsr che common tsn-s,''e, 'e.,n
The people Of the on.',i ~ ~
realize to-day more sleafiy "a q.
before that the main busin., .rci.,t
ligation OF industry are 20 III isr
goods. and 20 produce them .s.,,s .
: cost and In as great abunoss.',, ~.
nossibls But Important - ~ 4.
duetion Of goods obviously 80 lihr
feet Of industry upon those ,sr,erA
Is hardly less vital. For n'ans "a dli
labor In production is tDe 80. 3
thing In their lives. either y y /,
introduces into their experiences
what Il shuts out. -, w,
That Is, the conditions unee a. al
men live during that part 2. vhi.,
devoted to work, the ehafse..'a ~.
the task stamps upon minc 49, 49, ~
the sort Of life outside oi -. s.s ~
which A mans occupation perm 's,lrc
and his family 10 enjoy, thesc - i
NV. aIm,st As important = ~ D.
Sstsrminins general comfort asa s 80 20
being as does the quantity 0i
produced. .,,ft wtfl'
ers 4 still 20 be found w. ,ussl
tributed throughout The een.i,r eeisr 4
onsrst,on industries. But to-s,s -.
~ ioncer holds the distinction q 81 y,
the only practice, and exesp~s y
eIsi cireumstanesh 10 nv"
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