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I made, in 1852, a speech in favor of reducing the time of labor in factories to ten hours a day which, so far as I know, was the first speech in any legislative body in this country on that subject.
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Hoar claims to have delivered the first speech advocating for a ten-hour workday in a legislative body in the U.S.
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