THE LONG WEEKEND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 8

THE LONG WEEKEND

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I also wish to protest against the unfairness that is at present existing where one part of the community is enjoying the benefits that the Labour Government has bestowed, and the other part has derived no benefit at all. In fact it has only caused a serious dissatisfaction on the part of the shop assistant. In my opinion shop assistants are the workers that need the extra recreation that the 40 hours a week provides. As far as I can see, they are about the most "boxed-in" lot of workers. They are on duty till 9 p.m. on a Friday night, and then have to trot off to work again on Saturday morning, while some factory workers are finished work shortly after 4 p.m., and then have the next morning to sleep till their heart is content. Can there be any wonderment that the shop assistant is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.

The shop assistant also has one of the most nerve-wracking and temper-test-ing jobs that one could wish for. He must be harnessed up'with collar and tie even in the heat of summer. He must be most polite even when his head is nearly splitting open with headaches as the result of the effort to satisfy the last difficult customer.— 1 am, etc., ,

EXIT SATURDAY WORK.