The Eight Hours Bill.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 324, 13 July 1889, Page 2

The Eight Hours Bill.

|to rna bdijobJ Sib,—Your contemporary publishes a loader on Mr Taylor's Eight Hours Bill, Stigmatising ths member for Sydenham as an ignorant demagogue and affirming that the BUI is at once mischievous and unnecessary nolwitbPtanding that the principle of the Bill has been conceded on a second reading by 87 votes to 23. Not having the Bill before ma for peruse), I cannot diracily acouaa the newspaper alluded to of raising false issues, but I do know what is really sought tor by the worktag, classes in urging for legislation on this subjjM The price ot labor fluctuates aecntding to Iw nature, with ths prices of any other able commodity. Alt that i- needed Is tbs statutory declaration oi the number ot hours that shall legally constitute a day's work, and warrant the payment on the sathj scale for each longer period of labor wbsq such necessity shall arise by reason ct the netqre of ths employment. The exceptional oases would be cheerfully n;et by the employed were this understanding made dear Uy statute, and no collision would or could occur between employer and employed when the law had plainly fixed this basis ot contract. The allusion to informers I don't understand, unless the Bill contains useless additions to the main principle invo'ved. The supposition is that thia is not the case. It would be only fair to print the Bill itself before treating the public to an ex eaihidra condemnation ot it, — I am, so, A Woskino Max.