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TANANA SHEET METALWORKS
ONE DAY’S REST
IN EVERY SEVEN
(Contributed by John \V. Andrews, Sec
retary of the American Association for
Labor Legislation.)
For man, as for the lower organisms,
activity is necessary to lile. If not ex
ercised the body becomes flabby and weak;
if the vital organs alxandon their functions
extinction is certain and swift.
Every action, however, results in it
self in a sort of death. As 1 write this
article the muscles in my lnnd and arm,
the nerve centers which function the act
and the brain cells which will it are un
dergoing a tearing-down process, and
unless thev are replaced I must eventu
ally cease work* In the course of the
tearing down and building up processes
new products are set free in the system
which are poisonous to the surrounding
tissues, and if left to accumulate will re
duce efficiency. Not only that, for the
blor-d in its effort to carry off these pois
onous impurities will, if not properly re
vitalized, deposit these impurities in the
surrounding tissues instead of completely
throwing them off, and if long continued
the entire system will become affected,
and the body is said to be tired or fa
tigued. As a learned lawyer, now a
member of the supreme bench lias said:
“An ever-tired person is literally a pois
oned person, poisoned bv his own waste
products.’’
Due to the monotony of labor, the
speeding up. and tile long hours preva
lent in Americm industry, it lias been
noted that frequently the ordinary nite's
rest is insufficient to repair the wastes of
a wage earner’s daw Thus the man goes
back to his lathe and the girl to her
loom, a little less capable on Tuesday
than on Monday, and much less capable
on Saturday than at the beginning of the
week. The fatigue products have accum
ulated in their systems, and a longtr
break from the accustomed routine is
necessary to restore the system to normal.
This respite is furnished by the Christian
Sabbath, and one of the unwise innova
tions of the French revolutionists was
that they put their rest da\s ten dais
apart instead of-seven.
.
In manv American industries, however,
the weekly rest day has been neglected.
In steel mills, paper pulp mills, public
service util.ties such as electric power,
street car systems, railway and steamship
lines, drug stores, and many other forms
ot activity that can be readily called to
mind, thousands of men and women are
' toiling weeks on end with never a day's
intermission until the heart and body
rebel and the worker is forced to report
| “sick.” The number of such seven-dav
workers in the United States is not known
accurately, but .in Minnesota the men
alone were found to number nearly 100,
1 000, or about 14 percent of the total num
ber of males gainfully employed. In
Massachusetts a special legislative Com
mittee on observance of the Lord’s Day
estimated that about 222,000, or more
than 7 percent of the entire population
of the state, were engaged in seven-dav
labor. In New York 19.9 percent of the
members of trade unions reported them
selves as working seven davsiu the week.
In addition to the physical effect of
unremitting toil upon the wage earner
the moral and social effects are equally
marked. By unrelieved fatigue Jack is
made not only a very dull, but a vicious
boy as well. The craving for excitement
and strong stimulants replaces all that is
best in recreation. Family life is de
stroyed, the cultivation of w orthy friends
and interests is hampered, and intelligent
exercise of the duties of citizenship is
frustrated. A democracy cannot afford
to continue the production of such a type
of manhood or womanhood. Even on
the basis of dollars and cents, its most
frequent excuse, seven-day labor does
not pay for itself. Under stress of a world
war. Minister of Munitions Lloyd George
urged British munition w orkers to alxdish
Sunday work as the loss of one day of
rest in a week tended to reduce rather
than increase the total output.
Many employers of course have always
maintained a policy of one day’s rest in
se\-eu purely thru moral and ethical mot
ives. Thruout the history of our country,
however, legislators have been moved to
enact laws in the hope of restraining
those who could not or would not restrain
themselves. These laws for the most
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TAVERN CAPE
Tlic Snmc Good Cats at the Same
Old Stand — Moved to the end of
the lot until New Building is ready
The Two Crips Back on the Job
Curley . Dutch
part have proved futile. They essayed
to prohibit on Sunday work which our
"rowing civilization requires. Stop the
trains and street cars, the heating and
lighting plants, the milk deliveries, the
telephone service, and our great cities
would suffer as under a pestilence. Stop
the sugar refineries and other industries
which for technical reasons must be con
tinuous and incalculable damage would
result. Such stoppage of either produc
tion or service is neither practicable nor
desirable, and to meet the difficulty a
new type oi law has been evolved which
recognizes that we must and should have
continuous industries, but not continuous
men and women. The new law therefore
requires one full day’s rest in seven for
every worker without specifying any par
ticular day. This would result in two
things. Those industries which are nec
essarily continuous would be compelled
to increase their working staff by one
sixth so that one seventh of the total
force could rest in turn each day in the
week. Furthermore since increasing the
force will increase the cost of operation
those industries not necessarily continu
ous would be powerfully induced to close
on Sundav.
This new legislative movement was
begun in Switzerland in 1890 and in the
next two decades it had spread to most
of the leading European countries and to
Canada, Argentine and Chile. In the
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United States the dav-a-week rest day
measures which since 1913 have been in
successful operation in Massachusetts
anil New York are of this type ami were
drafted by the American Association for
Labor Legislation. Their beneficial re
sults have been commented upon by em
ployers and state officials as well as by
tlie workmen themselves. “Its enact
ment clearly rests upon public police,’’
said the New York supreme court in up
holding the statute. This year efforts
were made to extend the law to Maryland
and New Jersey and preparations are al
ready under way for its introduction in
several state legislatures during the 1917
sessions.
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