The Unions Win Their Point

THE UNIONS

WIN THEIR POINT

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NINE HOURS WILL BE A DAY'S 

WORK HEREAFTER

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The Builders & Traders Exchange

Concede the Point the Men

Contended For

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Nine hours will be a day's work for builders this year. The Builders & Trades' Exchange held its regular meeting Jan. 16, and after considering the matter in all its aspects decided to make that time a day's work. Work will begin at 7 o'clock in the morning and continue until 5 at night, with one hour for dinner. The scale takes effect May 1. Last year the men worked 10 hours, except on Saturday, which was a 9-hour day. The dropping of the hour each day shows the progress that is going on in the condition of the laboring men In this country. In a few years conditions will undoubtedly be such that eight hours will make a day's work in all trades, as it is in some today., The action of the Builders & Traders' Exchange in making a 9-hour day. will undoubtedly have an effect on other trades in Ann Arbor. The painters struck for a 9-hour day last summer, while the matter was not settled then, they may be able to obtain their demands now.

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Secretary Bliton of the Builders & Trades' exchange states that the action of the exchange in making nine hours a day's work applies to all trades in Ann Arbor. He says also that this act was entirely voluntary and unsolicited on the part of the exchange. The builders believe nine hours is long enough for any man to work, and as they all agreed to stick together they would lose nothing by the action.