Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-06
WORKERS FAVOR
DAYLIGHT SAVING
Canvasses of Plants Here Show
Majority for Advancing
Clock in Summer
MANY FOR LOCAL ORDINANCE

Employers Of labor in the Philadel-
plants, have arrived at the conclusion
that the majority of their workers favor
some form of daylight saving ordinance
for the coming summer season.
The Philadelphia Association for the
Discussion Of Employment Problems,
through its president, A. +. Chcvalirr'
manager of the Barrett Co., has just
completed an informal survey OF the
biggest industrial concerns seeking the
opinion of each on this question.
The association has about 150 mem
bers, each a firm employing large num-
bers of workers, and a QUESTIONABLE
sent to each elected the information
that the majority in favor Of daylight
saving was so great as to be over
whclming.
Many of the firms which replied to the
associations questionable indicated
that they were sorry the state law
favoring daylight saving was lost at
lIarrisbur. and favored n local ordi-
nance which would set the clock forward
an hour for Philadelphia.
Refining Co. For Plan
One of the biggest employers of labor
In this part of the country, the Attain
tic Refining Co., with 1000 workers,
wrote to the association: 1--WE shall be
glad to cooperate with you In any
movement having for its object tho en-
actment of local legislation which would
give to the workers of Philadelphia the
benefits of the additional hour of day
light" The Atlantic Refining Co.
workers, during the agitation for the
state daylight saving law, sent petit
tions to Harrisburg.
There was some opposition expressed
by members of the association. Thus,
the Bell Telephone Co., in long and
we'll reasoned reply to the question
naire. set forth as its reason for op-
nosins local daylight saving the fact
that where Philadelphia and nearby
cities were working under different time
systems, the telephone business would
be interefercd with seriously. Where
there was opposition expressed to the
nlan, II was founded in every case on
the thought that there might be con-
flict between the clocks of this city
and points near by, thus causing incon-
venience to many.
Soup Co. Votes FavorabIy
The Campbells Soup Co., of Camden.
another great employer of labor, wrote
that the company favored dayliG ht-
saving ordinance. and vote taken
some time previously had been ''ovcr-
whclmingly in favor of it,
The Campbell company wrote: I'VE
further believe that the benefits de-
rived by our employees from daylight
saving are so numerous and so obvious
that it is unnecessary to enumerate
them"
Among the firms and organizations
which endorsed daylight saving in reply
10 the associations Qucstionnaire, be-
sides those already mentioned, were
the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing
Co. the American Pulley Co.. the
North American Lace Co., the Curtis
Publishing Co.. the Thomas +. Brown
L Sons Coz. the Society Of Industrial
Engineers. the Barrett Co., George W.
Smith 4 Co.. Inc. Packard Motor Car
Co., of Philadelphia; Stokes Il Smith
Co.. the Electric Storage Battery Co.,
David Lupton's Sons Co., Abcrfoyle
Manufacturing Co., Dill Il Collins Co.,
the Leeds < Northrup Co., and the
Budd Wheel Corporation.