ABSTRACT
The six-hour day, for instance, is not immediately applicable to agriculture, because at present there is little labour-saving machinery used in agriculture. The six-hour day is already a most urgent and much-needed condition of working hours in all industries where women and girls are employed. But whilst under the scheme for a six-hour day the employee-workers would be working only for six hours each day, the machinery would be working for twelve, eighteen, or twenty-four hours each day, with resulting enormous increase in production at reduced cost. After the war, therefore, the times will be ripe for the six-hour working day of two shifts. The factory employee, no longer a "hand", would go for six hours a day to the factory in the true spirit of service. He or she would receive for that six hours at least the same pay that he or she now receives for eight hours.
