The Washington times., 1931-10-21
Six-HOur Day for Workers

Now the time reorganize American industry on the
basis of fair division of profits between American
men and American employers
Now the time for American business recognize the
fairness Of the sxhour day and to establish everywhere
in this country
When they do that they will be taking long step forward
toward solid and enduring prosperity But they must
cept the Six-hour day useful and necessary fact
chronological unemployment Is chronological
employment" It is manysyllabed explanation Of simple
fact-the displacement Of men by machines
Great like the late Thomas Edison have used their
and invented marvellous machines for the benefit Of
Indusras have taken those machines and used them
for benefit of INCREASED PROFITS Instead Of shar
ing those profits with the workers they have put them in
their own pockets the retirement age crept lower and
lower until men of forty years began lose their jobs
Then other conditions n millions of lost their
jobs and they have been waiting for more than two years to
get those jobs back.
But hundreds of thousands of them may those
jobs again. Why not Because machines have taken them
and will not give them They are good machines ney are
useful machines but long they owned by selsh or
shorghtd they dangerous and destructive nstru
divine discoveries fellow them for their
enrichment have complete economic recovery
in this country.
The hour dsy for workers the answer The instinct Of
in all when they fought the OF new
Inventions has been pervertedy right But they should no
have fought against the machines they should have 1o
division of the increased profits made possible by the inven
on That's what the sxhour day in industry will acnleVe
Last Sunday William Randolph Hearst said:
has been habit of the employing classes to take the
full benefit laborsaving machinery and capitalize it, de-
rvng the working people of their due share Of this benefit
The advantage of laborsaVing machinery should be dis
bued the employers greater profits to be and t"
the cheaper priCes but above all to the working
people shorter hours better wages and better living cond
tions.
Employers should realize that they have moral right to
monopoze these benefits and should have legal right to
do
''They must in common Justice common morality and
mon advantage distribute these benefits
Employers must realize that the distribution of these bene
fits advantage for the captasc classes well for
the consuming and working classes because without increased
buying the part of the there be su
cent market for increased production.
1.-The step in order the progress Of industry the six
hour day. and the sixhour day already being adopted by
the progressive employers.
There must be cooperation the part Of the working
people, course make adoption the sixhour day
possible in this period Of depression.
But capital might just well understand here and now
that an intelligent public opinion will longer permit the
employing class mOnOpoze all the benefits Of invention
but will insist upon those benefits being shared with its en-
ployes and with the consuming public"
Do wish booming and gracious prosperity to return?
Do wish those millions Of unemployed to have jobs once
more? The sxhOur day will be powerful lever to help us
back to economic health and happiness again