The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22
Retail Clerks Association to Be
Censured.
THEIR ACTION WAS HASTY
MEMBER OF THE FEDERATED
TRADES TALKS.
Says he Considers the Clerks Slap
ped His Organization In the Facs
When They Allowed Politicians
to Work Them Into Passing a
Resolution Against Barnes.

The Retail Clerks association is in a
! spanking from the Federated Trades
for allowing itself to be worked by Joe
Cottle and other scheming politicians
at what was supposed to be a social
gathering. The clerks, it will be re-
membered, got gay and condemned Ar
! thur f. Barnes because he was guided
by the opinion of the, city attorney on
/ the Sunday closing ordinance.
! The clerks, at the hehest of the
schemerS aforesaid, took their action
lis spite of the fact. we'll known to
them. that a committee of the FEEDER
ated Trades had been appointed to see
Mr.. Barnes and ask him about his po-
sition relative to Sunday closing and
early closing in the evening. This COM
mittee saw Salt Lakes next mayor and
had a. most satisfactory talk with him.
He explained his position to them and
succeeded in satisfying them of the jus
tice of it.
VIII Condemn Clerks.
The committee will report at the reg
ular meeting of the Federated Trades
next Friday night, unless a called meet
ing is determined upon. 1t is more than
likely that the report will contain a
for their hasty action and that the or
ganization take no further action in
the matter.
A member of the committee said last
night that ne considered the action of
Cottle's men a direct slap at the FEEDER
ated Trades. He declared his belief
that the clerks should be severely dis
ciplined for it. AS a matter of fact,
he continued, "Mr Barnes stand on
the question of closing on Sunday and
early ON week days is thoroughly salts
factory to organized labor in Salt Lake.
IF the clerks had q. kick coming to
them they should have first presented
it to the Federated Trades. Then, if
that body saw fit to pass resolutions
or take other action, the matter would
have been regularly conducted. The
clerks, however, saw fit to take matters
into their own hands. They weren't
willing to wait until our committee had
formulated a report, for the politicians
who We're behind the movement knew
that report would be favorable to Mr..
Barnes.
Nothing But Tools.
THE clerks have allowed themselves
to be made tools of by men vino be-
long to their organization for political
purposes only. Their resolution will
have the effect only of making them
the Laughing stock of the Federated
Trades. 1t won't even make them solid
against Barnes, because the members
who were for the Democratic candidate
before viii be for MIN all the stronger
now, while those who were against him
will still follow their natural inclina-
tons.
Our investigation of the question
developed that Mr.. Barnes was handed
a resolution by one Of the clerks, ask
ing for an ordinance providing for Sun
day closing. The paper that was hand
ed to him was simply a rough pencil
draft. The night the council met he
handed this draft to a stenographer to
run off on a typewriter. Before the
work was finished. Robertson sprung
his resolution, which was practically
the same as the one handed to Mr.
Barnes.
Favored the Ordinance.
Naturally enough, when Robertson
took the action he intended to take, Mr.
Barnes could not see the necessity for
numbering the city records with two
resolutions calling for the same thing.
He didn't INTRODUCE the resolution
handed to him, but he voted for the
one handed to Robertson. He was in
favor of the ordinance all the time I'm
til the city attorney decided that it
SOulU MT S4i1oi0cd Oii eiNSVuhl vi tnC
discrimination made against certain
classes of business men.
LAS a sensible man, Mr.. Barnes did
not wish to vote for any law that
couldn't be enforced, so when the or
dinance was brought in, in spite of Mr..
Halls opinion, he voted against it. ],
for one, am satisfied that he did the
right thing. If the clerks have any
protests TO make they should make
them against Hall. and not Barnes, for
Barnes has acted as any sensible man
would act throughout the whole bust