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Excerpt from The Painter and Decorator, 1918, Vol. 27: Official Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America The rise of wages has usually been ac companied by some reduction in the hours of labor. No summary is given in reference to the hours of labor, though the detailed tables of the report afford material for the Calculation of the daily hours of labor in most of the individual occupations in the separate cities. The question of the ten hours' work day for all men employed in any industry is now before the Chamber of Deputies. It is said to be likely to pass with the proviso that this limitation is not to be applicable to workshops where less than 10 men are employed. At present a ten hours' day is only enforced where women are employed as well. In mines there is a nine hours' day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.