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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm t v--;r:.s -r -.- 5Vf T - J "r 4-''-r3yT' ,7 s. . " rf M v I 500 SQPEORIA 5T "' .398 i 't M $EL--MONRQE 353 Chicago Friday N6vember 3,' 191 1. rVICEi COMMISSJON'SREPQRTUPONTHE EVIU . EFFECTS OOVERWOFiKlUPdN MORALS;: : ' OtferiflorA,' CHpplesAKeMdyRmns Health, SKprtensr - jLze Stunts the mind, tleaves theSy'stem Jfldgd- ajrw. 'Wornfotid'-LeadsitQ Di'ssipalianzrA Powerful Argu . rhentdn Favor cff'the'Shorter-'Work-day.'- ' J" ' ., f ''- ,)-.";',' j ; ' '. f-.. If 1 . For many ycais organized-labor has been" fighting, fonan. eight-; hour, workaday--r Many obtac.les Tkavebeeh "encountere"d :. many have Veen Werbme-and(tHere"are many,, still, inithVway. .. j . ' probably i1reverybddy h&d, understood howniuch was Jit stake lo the'en'fjrel human race, the shorter wofk-davwoula have .been won with less trouble. - . I -1 . I But because njarly, did .not- midpstarild, and. dp, not vet under stand, labor's" fight' for" this 'one' prmciple'tnakeY neaclvyy -slowly-j-, inch by inch., ,, , , ,.(r , . ', ,-. f ." f .. lt'r - " . ItJs'not' strange, ..perhaps thjitworlce.rsoutsideT the union; fanksr dd .p9tundersapd: - ETspectilfy tfie, gYearm .of ; workers, who make -Up thelso-jcallexl'jniddlclassXniniqy'pLyom think their parttcufar' work js, too far ab"6,ye.t;h.at'bCthe mechanic.br dav. lohnrArnr fhpm rr nrnmni7A mm nnmnc .... understand dori done all that .was necessary wheri they had secured.'' the. eight jhourl dav for themselves for their trade.- " - ."",. ,.' -For all unibn men',, either o,f4the kindust-meplioned or of.the, kind that keens pn,worJcing ,for the shorter" work day for, ALX. work-, men, tliere is'foo'd for reflection in the rep 6ft ''of the Chicago 'vice commission. A . - , , , "An'd for a,U fathers and mother.sAv(hejther inside, or outride te, union ranks--forall good.ptfzens'jn fat ihere is. something worth" mighty 'serious, 'thpught- in 'that yiqe reppj;t something con,cefn-n ing the baUiffect of longhours.of -lbpr op morals,. aSj well as ptC"' physical' healtHi -v, T' , ,-,., ' , . ;Oflcourse:we alf'kfjojY to t p'QQf, wealc, fir elf an wellriigk ' A. ' - ' r v liyiiyiMiiiiiiiiMiiiMiiH ,U...J t,- , wnen there are so many in.sI4e."the" upion Varies -that. 't understand. -r'" - . . . . "For 'there afe manv aimoh. workmen. who.thotiGrht, they -Had,