THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14645, 21 April 1913, Page 8

THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.

TO THE BDITOn OV * TIIE PR?****Sir,—A correspondent, • sell ''Liberal" in your cohimns gfcj. • days ago, drew a picture of thei «■ nnd dreary" lives of shop, a " ls W •■oiling to* make a Curtate hu,ch bo£ , , day with the wives and c' ll '^ l , -"£.' inir ready for poor, exhausted «: ISlaiS when they get home from tag - 1 ness," and claiming that the panacea . for ill these ills is the change.of Mi . .*" idav from Thursday to -Saturday. I have not the patience nor you v . snace to waste in showing that *» Kments of jaded, overworked «J - . sistants. aro a gross f, xa^f ß ! on 6 ' 4S hours a week is the shops j» B d?,nl, but 1 .should like to **-*>**£ change of day will improve n' a "era There will still be tho late night on , ! FHday, and exactly the samo number lof hours will bo worked so I fad J° see the point; and, iurthcr, if «» - extra two hours from > to .;_ p : n d affects ' 'Liberals '•fellow-worker buna. fellow creatures" so much that tncj , have "no capacity for enjoying any* . thinn but absolute rest over the wee* .. end," what sort of condition will thej be in, after a Friday lato night, to g . to business on (Saturday ™*™*t ~ Again, I say it is not a question ot shorter hours. If tho shops close on Saturday, they will remain open on . Friday nights. I pass by ■£>*£* hiut as to "clowning tools, cW., as oneath notice. The assistants are not children, and do not want to o» ... treated as - A