Eight Hours for Work
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II THE EIGHT-HOURS DAY AT WORK 91 unexplained.^ But all the furnaces in West Cumber- land adopted the eight-hours shift on 1st October, 1890, and after a year's working Mr. Walls, President of the National Association of Blast Furnacemen, and agent of the Cumberland branch, said the change had proved satisfactory both to employers and employed, though it caused to the latter a loss of one-fifteenth of their wages, and to the former an increase of an eighth in the labour cost of the p...roduct.^ Mr. Williams, a Middlesborough ironmaster, calculated that the third shift in blast furnaces must, even with certain reductions of wages, add at least a third to the cost of the product^ but here in West Cumberland it has added only an eighth, so that the change is much less expensive than employers presuppose, the reason being — what em- ployers so often fail to take into their calculations — that the men work proportionately harder in the 8 hours than in the 12, and that they are more seldom off duty through overwork.
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II THE EIGHT-HOURS DAY AT WORK 91 unexplained.^ But all the furnaces in West Cumber- land adopted the eight-hours shift on 1st October, 1890, and after a year's working Mr. Walls, President of the National Association of Blast Furnacemen, and agent of the Cumberland branch, said the change had proved satisfactory both to employers and employed, though it caused to the latter a loss of one-fifteenth of their wages, and to the former an increase of an eighth in the labour cost of the p...roduct.^ Mr. Williams, a Middlesborough ironmaster, calculated that the third shift in blast furnaces must, even with certain reductions of wages, add at least a third to the cost of the product^ but here in West Cumberland it has added only an eighth, so that the change is much less expensive than employers presuppose, the reason being — what em- ployers so often fail to take into their calculations — that the men work proportionately harder in the 8 hours than in the 12, and that they are more seldom off duty through overwork.
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