Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-21
NAY Be No SUNDAY SLAVES
Journeymsn BARRIERS Agitsting the Closing
of Shops on that Day,
ALTERNATIVE EARLY HOUR SATURDAY
Bosses InclIRed To Insist on keeping
open Late saturday Evening
and Also Usual sunday
Hours.

The closing Of the saloons on sunday
and the movement for the prohibition OF
Sunday funerals is likely, 1T Is said, to
DE followed by the closing of barber shops
in Council Bluffs on the sabbath. The
Sunday closing movement amoRg the ton
serial artists, it is said, will be the Gull
mination Of the present agitation for
closing week nights, except Saturdays,
at o'clock instead of at o'clock.
The journeymen BARRIERS are seeking to
have the boss BARRIERS consent to close
their shops at O'Clock in the evening at
least during the summer months, but the
bosses do not appear to favor the prop
osition. canvass made by a committee
Of four. composed of two boss BARRIERS
and like number of journeymen BARRIERS,
showed that while a majority of the nom
union shops were in favor of the PROPOSE
tion, almost all of the union shops were
opposed to IL. The canvass showed ten
shops in favor of the proposition and if-
teen against it.
Failing to obtain the concession of Z
o'clock closing on week nights, it is said
the iourneymen will insist on Sunday
closing. II they cannot obtain this by
peaceful methods. it is stated. they will
invoke the aid of the courts with a view
to having the state Sunday closing law
enforced
On the other hand the bosses insist
there shall be no change for the present,
at least in the hour schedule, and that
their shops shall remain open on Sundays
heretofore. The bosses take the stand
that under the agreement entered into
three years ago, when the Sunday closing
question was agitated the existing sched-
ule was to remain i'm force until the
agreement expired, which they say will
not be before the latter part of August.
The journeymen contend, however, that
this agreement entered into three years
ago will expire the early part of next
month.
Agreement or no agreement the jour
neymen declare that they will either Sc
cure the closing at o'clock week nights
or else the shops will not open on Sun
days. A journeyman barber in one of
the leading shops of the city said yester-
day in discussing the matter: I'VE are
not looking for trouble between the jour
neymen and the bosses, but much prefer
| to settle our differences peacefully. The
bosses are mistaken when they say the
agreement under which we are at present
working does not expire until the latter
| part of August next AS we understand
1t this agreement expires early next
| month There is no absolute necessity
| for man being shaved on Sunday. He
can just as well get his chin scraped
| Saturday and allow us to enjoy at least
one day of rest in the week. II is claimed
the closing of barber shops ON Sundays
would prove an Inconvenience, for travel
ing men who might be unable to reach
| the city Saturday nights until after the
shops are closed. This may be true, but
the number of travelling men who would
be affected is small when compared with
the rest of the male community. Mayor
| Macrae has urged the prohibiting of fun
erals on Sundays except in cases of alb
solute necessity; let him do the same for
| u.s."