The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-15
WOMEN MAY SAVE
WORKING SISTERS
Managers of Department
Stores Declare Women Have
Remedy for Long Hours.
LEAGUE STARTS CRUSADE
STORE MANAGERS WILLING TO
FOLLOW The MAJORITY,


differ in their attitude toward earlier
closing Of stores and shorter hours for
clerks, brought up in the Women's
league. All are OF the opinion tnat the
stores should be closed earlier proNiI-
ing women do their shopping earlier,
ana also providing nU monetary loss IS
sustained. Department stores are prl-
marily affected in the matter because
they employ a larger number Of women
than speciality houses or other places
of business
Yesterday committee from me
WOmens league visited the various
downtown stores and obtained express
sions from the managers. The attitude
of the merchants was 10 treat the
proposition seriously. rs they under
stand that it is "a serious problem, VITA
many sides. The Womens league
adopted the crusade at q meeting of
directors. and the members say lt viii
branch out.
The women requested earlier closing
during the holidays 8 o'clock closing
on Saturdays and 8 o'clock closing on
week days. 1t is understood that later
they win ask 1 o'clock closing on sat
uTdays.
ON attitude is just this said Cen
eral Manager Charles Walker of Keith
q Briens last night. we believe that
tho solution of the problem lies I'm the
women themsel1 es, 1T they viii 90
their shopping early i'm the day there
VIII be no rush at night and therefore
no necessity 10 keep open. We are not
going To keep our store open If there IS
no money coming ia. We are here TO eX-
change merchandise for money. and we
take i'm some Saturday nights more
than during the entire day.
Il believe that the women are gOlns
about ID wrong. Instead of coming 10
the stores and asking for early closing,
r they would stir uD sentiment among
shoppers u buy things i'm the morning
or early afternoon. the rush OF the day
would be distributed instead of conSes1 l.
ed az the last minute We do a big
Saturday business for many reasons,
one of them being that the women do
not do early shopping; another IS Jhat
many are not paid off until o'clock
Saturday and THEN wives do not have
the opportunity of shopping before that
time We would he perfectly willing TO
close if there was not a rush during the
late hours. but do not think Salt Lake
has reached the point of early closing
of stores as is seen i'm some other
cities. Tt is coming to that, though,
and we will welcome it when the time
comes. but the people must be educated
to early shopping before the stores can
be forced 20 early closing
Champions the Women.
General Manager J. u. Botfuss OF
Walkers store vigorously champions
the side of the Women's league in Jheir
movement for early closing.
II think the stores should close ear
Ier" he said 81 believe it works an
injustice ON women 10 stand on their
feet from i'm the morning till 10 i'm the
evening of Saturdays I would be per-
fectly willing TO sign a petition for o
o'clock closing saturdays. All the stores
should do il. The state of Washington
passed a law making il compulsory for
stores that keep open more than eight
hours to employ a double SHIFT. There
should be more cooperation i'm salt
Lake ana this movement could be dc-
Complished without q law.
1T is only question of time when
Salt Lake stores will close earlier. This
city is behind others i'm that respect
and travelling men who came from the
east and big cities ON the coast are sur
pised that we renfain open later than
o O'Clock Saturday nights. I read i'm "a
paper that st. Paul stores viii not re-
main open a single night for the Christ
mas holidays. The people should be
educated to early shopping. and then
we will have earlier hours OF closing. ]
think the women should be encouraged
IN this movement. and viii head the
petition. providing all the stores come
into the movement
Manager Henry j. Wallace of AUer-
baCh's was not visited by the W0men's
committee yesterday, and did not care
to express an opinion.
Manager simon of the Paris Nil
linery store said that while ne had not
formed am opinion i'm the matter, ne
had received visit from the commit
tee His store viii follow the lead of
the majority he said.
At stores along Main street similar
views We're expressed.
The stores I'm general VIII remain
open the last three nights of Christmas
week this year. Some of the stores
have been iH favor of remaining open
an week To accommodate the shoppers
hut the sentiment in favor of only
three nights gained favoT.
All Of the merchants are 0f the opE-
ION that while it is a good thing to give
clerks shorter working hours, this con-
dition can Ice best attained by the
women themselves who are leaders iT
the movement They contend that {,
the women viii shop i'm the morning
and early afternoon. instead Of after
o'clock. the rush wiz be over and there
. viii be no necessity for late openings
ut the stores. Tt is pointed out that the
stores are crowded between 3 and G
and ON Saturday uiEhts. when the
stores remain open several hours later
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