It revealed the good effect, on the individual health, home life, and general welfare, of short hours of labor.
Nor was the business aspect of the case neglected.

That people accomplish as much in an eight-hour day as in a twelve-hour day has actually been demonstrated.

The brief stated, for one instance, the experience of a bicycle factory in Massachusetts.
In this place young women were employed to sort the ball bearings which went into the machines.

They did this by touch, and no girl was of use to the firm unless her touch was very sensitive and very sure.

The head of this firm became convinced that the work done late in the afternoon was of inferior quality, and he tried the experiment of cutting the hours from ten to nine.