The Six Hour Shift and Industrial Efficiency

THE "six-hour day," or "six-hour shift," is an expression that has caused employers many sleepless nights. It is rather startling, perhaps, to come upon those three little words, especially at a time when strikes are called for the purpose merely of reducing a nine- or even a ten-hour day to an eight-hour day. What is the six-hour shift plan? A Utopian dream, a plank in the Socialist platform? An attempt to restrict production? By no means. It is the result of years of experiment by one of ...