The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-04
RAILROAD MEN,
EARLY CLOSING
Lodge Declares Against Early Saturday Closing and Calls
Other Railroad Organizations Make Public Their views
Clerks Are Advised to First Organize as Union

yiously without foundation In fact
that 1t borders on The ridiculous
'In justice to all concerned, IN
Guiding yourself and "the directors
WHO have a mind OF their own. You
should consult the public pulse. for
there may be difference oil opinion
In regard to allowing YOU to dispose OF
the seven o'clock question as you see
fit after throwing the rest of the
clerks out Of court CO.
II YOU want 10 keep open Satur-
days you have a right to do so, The
point Is well taken BY the same
token the worllingmen over whom You
shed crocodile tears have a right to
work when, and for whom, they
please For less provocation than you
have given them. these same work
lngmen have been known to paralyze
industry and drag whole communl-
ties with Them to the verge OF starva-
ton. And these are the people You
would bait With "a chance 10 make
purchases Saturday night"
You are conversant with conditions
In cosmopolitan and metropolitan
cities in these United States" per
haps YOU have seen the vigor and de-
termination with which boycotts are
prosecuted against public service cor
porations 1t costs the corporations
millions and millions of dollars TO
correct this temporary alteration on
the part of the public. In a contest
of that kind a public service corpora
tion wins out where hundreds OF es-
tablishments like that which you pre-
IL toI ha linn Of
missing links
As YOU say, there Is no union to
deal with. Do not. therefore. reckon
without due consideration OF the fact
that the spirit of unionism is In the
air.
You want a law to close YOU up
at seven o'clock Law prevents the
use OF the Stars and Stripes for
advertising purposes. Is it then. too
far TO hope that law will step in and
wrest the shorter workday from the
short sighted commercialism which
may not mar the glorious Stars and
Stripes. but throttles the humanity
for which it stands?
You speak. Mr. Baron, Of your con-
stitutional right to do as you please
about closing. \ mans constitutional
right only exists BY the will of the
maiorlty-and the majority in ogden
have willed to close at seven o'clock
The constitution aims to protect the
people and ioWteen-hour workday
is inbuman and harmful. and the peo-
pie have so declared. So il Is up to
YOU 10 recognize the constitutional
right so declared. Your clerks. you
say. prefer the half holiday and nine
o'clock closing We would like to
know from the clerks themselves
which they prefer. but as YOU have
taken it upon yourself to settle the
question for the working men. the
merchants and the people. it is quite
probable YOU are settling the ques-
tlon for your clerks. While It is
quite immaterial who started the
early closing movement It may be
we'll TO state that the movement start
ed with the women of the Federated
clubs of Ogden, who enlisted the help
OF the Betterment league. Mutual I'M
provement association, the labor un-
ions, the merchants, the clerks. and
the public. and the club women are
moro than pleased with the response
given tSigned),
Kate S. Hilliard. Eugene A, Battell