The Case for the Shorter Work Day, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Case for the Shorter Work Day, Vol. 1: Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1915, Frankin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error, Vs. The State of Oregon, Defendant in Error, Brief for Defendant in ErrorExperience, then, must be allowed to challenge the assumptions of theory and disprove its prophecies. EX perienee constantly has undermined such assumptions and dispelled dire prophecies. England furnishes the most striking and familiar illustration. In 1844 during the heated debates in the House of Commons on Lord Shaftesbury's Ten Hour Act, Charles Greville could note in his diary that all the political economists of course are against him. (2 J ournal of Charles Greville, Of the political opponents such noteworthy figures as Gladstone, Sir J ames Graham, and J A. Roebuck later became enthusiastic converts to the measure. (2 Hod der's Life of Shaftesbury, pp. 205 When that Act had been in operation seventeen years, Professor Wil liam Overmarch, President of the Economics Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in his presidential address to that section, called the Factory Acts wholly successful, spoke of the limita tion of hours as a security against foreign competition, a guarantee of power, and fund of undivided profits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.