2. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A "Fewer hours of toil mean more time to read, and after the adoption of the ten-
hour system the workman took more of interest in the press of the land: he had
more time to read." (Paragraph 5)
B. "If the hours of labor are cut down to eight, the idle men who have flocked to
this country will be employed, and we shall be correspondingly happy."
(Paragraph 7)
"..we should have to cut down the hours of labor still further in a few years to
accommodate the idle thousands imported to this country by steam and railway
companies and after the number of the unemployed increased again, we
should have to reduce the hours of labor again and again until the unemployed
of Europe and of Asia had landed when we should have nothing to do."
(Paragraph 7)
D. "These periodical depressions need not come every few years and they would
not come if we had an eight-hour work-day in existence and workmen were
educated in the science of government." (Paragraph 13)