British Columbia would be crippled by a mandatory eight-hour work day, proposed by an independent member of the Legislature, a delegation of 20 businessmen warns in a meeting with Premier John Oliver and his cabinet, the Victoria Times reports, November 11, 1921. A resolution passed by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association and endorsed by the business […]
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7-day work week just isn’t Christian
The normal six-days-a-week of work (usually 12 hours a day) is fine, but seven-days-a-week just isn’t Christian, according to this item in the London Advertiser, February 6, 1902. Most of us have to work in this country, and practically all of us feel and respond to that need. It is in working that we learn […]