But the wageworkers of the United States are of so high a grade that alike from the merely industrial standpoint and from the civic standpoint it should be our object to do what we can in the direction of securing the general observance of an eight-hour day.
Roosevelt argues for the observance of an eight-hour workday for skilled wageworkers in the U.S.
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