...first Deputy of Massachusetts Bureau of Labor, 1869-1873. Apostle of Eight-hour movement RESOLVED ist, that a reduction of the number of hours for a day's...of a great moral and social reform, and that it is every way worthy of the sympathy and co-operation of the most progressive and liberal thinkers of the...

...three, appropriating $400 to match that already put up by the Machinists and Blacksmiths, and resolving that "a reduction of the number of hours for a day's...point to which our movement ought to be directed. . . ."* Labor's new agitation fell on soil well prepared by the developments of the preceding decade...