The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-07
TALK OVER EARLY
CLOSING Project
Club Women, Merchants and
Employees Meet to Discuss
the Movement.
BOOST HOME GOODS, TOO
UcTs AT RIGHT PRICES.
BOOST HOME GOODS, TOT

Resolutions calling for the closing of
nearly all business houses on Sunday.
especially grocery and meat stores, and
for o'clock closing of stores on Satur-
day. for the changing OF payday from
Saturday to Monday, and for the pay
ment in cash instead of by check, and
for the support of home-manufactured
goods were passed In a jump at a Joint
meeting of club women, retail clerks.
retail butchers and grocers, manufac-
turers and a few ;thers, held in the
rooms of the Retail Merchants associa-
ton last night.
The meeting had been called chiefly
Tor the purpose of forming a club to
have as its object the upbuilding of
Utah factories, but it was decided by
the CLUB women themselves that it
would be better for them to take the
matter before their respective Organiza-
tons and let theT1 determine what was
best. But the women let il be known
clearly that they were in favor of buy
ing Utah goods so long as they were Of
the quality and at the same price as
other products.
Many Agree to Close.
1t was announced during the meeting
that nearly all of the business houses
of the business district had agreed to
close at o'clock Saturday night, with
two exceptions. Representatives of
some OF the women's clubs and the
clerks associations will wait upon pro-
prfetors of these stores this afternoon,
and three members from the Retail
Merchants association will also be on
hand TO urge early closing. An effort
- oh al 1iyof ions
working together, to induce all of the
merchants to close their doors.
c. z. Palmquist, secretary Of the Re-
tail Clerks association, gave a short
history of the work which has been
done by the clerks to get the stores TO
close early, and announced that thirty
six new names have been added to the
list of members from one store. He
said that, through his Organization,
which is a branch of the Utah FEEDER
alton of Labor, all of the union organ
izatiOns of the city had been asked to
have their wives do their shopping dur
ing the day and thus allow the early
closing.
AS long as the merchant sees the
people coming in his doors, he will keep
them Open" said Mr.. Palmquist, but
II Will not take long for him to close at
o'clock if he finds no people coming
in though he still has to pay for the
lights burned up to o'clock and after.
So it is up to the people to do their
shopping early, and then the merchants
will be willing to close their doors
early"
There was an Interesting thTee-cor-
nened bout between the manufactures.
the groeers and the women, in which
the grOeers seemed 10 have the best of
II both ways They declared they were
more than willing TO boost the Utah
goods, and would do all in their power
to advance the Utah Goods for Utah
People campaign But they declared
that in some instances the manufacture
ers would not permit them 10 do this,
as they Insisted on a certain price for
their product. which was more than
was charged for the goods from the
east, and at the same time a smaller
margin vas allowed for the retailer.
The retail merchants opened their
meeting to the clerks and the manufac-
turers to see what they could do for
both organizations, and it resulted in
a general goodwill conference, in
which each voted to help the other.
Defends Utah Products.
Dan Collett. secretary of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers association
had charge Of the meeting part Of the
time. and declared that the product of
the Utah manufacturers was on a par.
on the whole. with that shipped in from
other centeFs He declared that the
goods meFitel the support of the women
of the city, and when this support came
in, great advance would be shown in
both the proouet and the size Of the
factories.
Mrs. Elizabeth II. Cohen, president
of the WOman's league and other Woul-
en- ssid that at this time it would be
unWise for the women to form another
club to take Up the work. but that the
clubs now organized might be induced
20 add a separate committee which
r.oilld have tie a1ra nnanaat1f of IFtah