The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-15
AT ISSUE WITH
"WORKINGMAN"
A Working Girl Heard From.
Secretary Browns Views
Given.

Editor Advertiser | wonder if | may
take advantage of your kindness and
| send a few plain words to Mr.. Work
ingInan'? 1t hardly seems possible that
one who belongs to the working majority
can advocate addition of laborng
| hours, rather than a shortening How
| ever, here are a few plain words that
| Working Girl would like to say to that
| Nv orkingman."
Suppose that the hours were from to
3 on Saturday, you would like Now,
for the man who swings the hammer and
| the employee of the plantation well and
good. But how about the ones who have
tc stay for these people? We will say
! fifty per cent, not seventy-five per cent,
4 of the working class of Honolulu. Where
would their opportunity to make pur-
chases for themselves be? They must
have things just as well as the man of
hammer, etc. He wants to spend his
money for supplies or other things that
| Mr., WorNingman does and also on Sat
urday evening. What solution has this
| writer got to offer to Mr.. Clerk? He
may say that the clerk is employed in the
very place where he himself wants to
buy. But suppose that the hardware
man wants groceries, the dry goods man
wants hardware, what is each to do? Is
| it going TO help the clerk any to buy be-
! cause the stores are kept open?
| No. it will help the workingman only.
Now, Mr.. Workingman, why can't you
do the same as the poor clerk and get
in as best you can? Are you jealous be-
cause the dear ladies who have managed
to get concessions for US, have not as
yet done so for you? Don't you think
that this is but a forerunner of better
| hours for all of US working people in
| Honolulu? Are you going to try to spoil
the work of these ladies?
| Would you be very lenient if you were
| to go into a store on Saturday evening
and find the clerk cross and surly? No.
| very much fear that you would go out
! III .nking what mean set of clerks that
particular place had, instead of thinking
that it was owing to you that he had
To he on his feet from to s? Now,
am ready to be convinced if you can only
/ ind a solution for us-the clerks
a WORKING GIRL.
Editor Advertisers Some of the con-
| illusions of our friend, ''Workingman
! in Yesterdays issue cause smiles. Smiles
and relaxation are good, therefore he has
done US good. He should not spoil the
effect by grumbling because the move
nent VIII benefit the clerk more than
the mechanic We object to his mere in
situation that workingmen have to spend
! their wages the day they get them or
! they vanish. He shows that he has not
grasped the situation when he speaks of
closing every Saturday. The agreements
which are being signed so generally pro
pose closing only during the four hottest
months, ending September 18th. >this year
| We believe that wives are often more
Icareful buyers than husbands and should
! be given the privilege of shopping, and
/ that bachelors can plan to use part of
noon hour even easier than they can
write to San Francisco for catalogue or
der without seeing, go to the postoffice
! TO get a money order and wait three
weeks for the goods. His friend would
! lend him his telephone five minutes if he
I did not grumble at the other fellow get
( ting fresh air time. Let him study the
4 railroad time table and tell me when
/ plantation men even from Eva could
! get back from a Saturday night shopping
expedition We cannot please everybody,
/ but we are persistentIy working for the
I best interests of clerks and working men
and the work meets with cordial re-
: Spouse from the best business houses.
HENRY C. BROWN.
4 FAVORABLE INTERVIEWS
Secretary Brown, of the Y NJ c. A.
Interviewed the japanese consul about
Saturday afternoon closing during the
summer, and that official expressed his
personal appreciation of the plan. He
sa5d the Merchants Association would
re the body to pass on the subject and
referred him to the president, Mr.. Ina
aishi, with the promise of his own writ
approval for the paper, If Mr.. / was
- yorable The following shows Mr. is
tUitude:
Honolulu. 18th August, 1901
! Mrs Henry c. Brown.-Dear Madam:
! heartily approve of the closing of
stores on Saturday at l O'Clock during
summer months, and hope that your eff
! forts viii he rewarded with success.
/ Yours faithfully, II. j. IMANISHI
DIR. Mitamura is advocating Saturday
afternoon closing in his paper. He also
! Signs the following.