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notices or books. 277
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The Saturday Pioneer Ha Of Lf Progress -...
. instances S Churchyard pottiswoodes for , Barclay , ten the years well , Perkin known past s , and given printers Co , their ., and , Hitchcock men others the who S o aturday have _£ St . in Paul some half ' s -
holiday with advantage to employers and employed . Mr . George Spottiswoode states as follows : —
have " We alwa close ys found at two the o ' cloc lan k to answer summer well , and . We thoug a later ht hour we wou in winter ld try whether , and we , - hoursthe firm actualllost bitand found
far by g from iving that the being men a th few e case , that , amount the same of time amount y of wasted work y ; was got we bod throug went so h .
to on The wor the secret k S , aturday especia of it l l is y on quite , that Saturday able a a si less ght to , with see , very so anxious earl great was eagerness are the men . . In Every fact to get , our throug y office _h
all the work , so as to be get away y . " Mr . Robert Hanbury , of the firm of Truman , Hanbury , and
I 3 uxton We , says :- — lete in five days and a half that which formerly occupied
bel six " ieve days we now to do are comp , and gain this ers is . without Our men any inconven are decidedl ience , y and improved in the , long and run yet I - work is done heartil
better servants , and the more y . " MessrsBarclay ive the same favorable testimony : —
tion " The of our plan . regular has occasioned work g ; on no the inconvenience contrary , it has or obstacle resulted to in the greater due execu conve - -
nience to all concerned . " As Lord Shaftesbury observes in a letter to the Times on
thissubj and e mental ct , in May excitement , 1856 : — the "In periodical these days relaxation of unprecedented we seek is ph indis ysical
-, pensable to all classes ; " and when tliat we the find by unanswerable amount of work testi is
performed mony , such , with as that even quoted greater above satisfaction , same to the employer , in five hours and a half than formerly in sixthe economical expediency of
the _qiiestion must be considered as , finally settled . The value of this no more essay than is , that has it been deals alread with y the conceded facts of in the individual case , and instances pleads for to
the satisfaction of all concerned . The advantages of the early payment of wages to the workman and his family are set forth in the *
same lucid mannerand corroborated by even more extensive expe-, rience one or , proving two shillings that by a payment week better on the than Friday when nig paid ht the , late wages on the are
dissi day Saturday ' pate s work , his and before earnings this him for , at the self the workman -evident public-house reasons overcomes , and . better With the carries temptation and the his wage Satur to _& -
home to his wifewho finds on the Saturday a cheaper market than that , of the Sunday . Many large firms have for some years adopted this -plan with the most satisfactory results . Mr .
Denn "It is will gives be seen his from testimony these , statements and adds , : made - — by men of who both are themselves that
mi t he ga ht eai ged ' otherwise ly payment busine be s not s , ruined and onl have y wards but witnessed that off it an also the evil working tends by which in a the direct working systems manner , man to .
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Notices Or Books. 277
notices or books . 277
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/61/
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