SHOP HOURS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 13

SHOP HOURS

10 THE EDITOR. ' ! Sir, —Being employed in the drapery trade, I have read with interest the paragraphs appearing in your columns lately on the dispute over the late award. Unfortunately many assistants in the outlying suburbs are painfully aware of the fact that a half-hour gained on Friday night does not compensate for having to start half an hour earlier each morning. It hurts all the more to be told that the employers are opening at 8.30, against their inclinations or business interests. Now, why this seemingly retrograde step? ■ Lately the union applied to the Court for a shortening of the late night, and half an hour was granted. The employers now offer to concede half an hour on Saturday, and revert to the usual hour of opening, if the union agrees to extend the hour oE closing to 9 p.m. on Friday, as formerly. In your last-night's report this offer was not even mentioned, which to me seems unfair. .1 think it may bo safely stated that if put to a vote, 75 per cent, of the employees would be in favour of it. If so, surely the union executive should be guided by their wishes.—l am, etc., SUBURBANITE. 13th June. ,