With very accurate appreciation of the state of things, the London labourers employed in the building trades declared, during the great strike and lock out of that they would only accept wages by the hour under two conditions:, that, with the price of the working hour, a normal working day of and hours respectively should be fixed, and that the price of the hour for the hours, working day should be higher than that for the hour of the hours working day;, that every hour beyond the normal working day should be reckoned as over time and proportionally more highly paid.