100 years ago in AM AMERICAN MACHINIST A call for vacation Reflecting the growing matter over laborers' fights at the move round of the century.
100 years ago in AM AMERICAN MACHINIST A call for vacation Reflecting the growing matter over laborers' fights at the move round of the century, the July 7 1900 issue of AMERICAN MACHINIST made a case for granting machinists common week of vacation. The magazine appealed to manufacturing companies saying that, "The gain is not alone to the worker, on the other hand also to the work. The quality and quantity of work useed out for the year are increased rather than diminished from this arrangement for the automatic overhauling of the principal instrument of all accomplishment,