SHOP ASSISTANTS’ HOURS
Public attention at Home is being awakened to the need of curtailing the boors of shop assistants. “It is astonishing,” wrote Lord Avebury, in a letter apologising for bis absence from a conference of grocers’ assistants, “ that the Government ignore the general wishes of the shopkeeping community, and bring forward instead so many contentious measures, about which tbo country is so much divided. Shop assistants (and especially the women) are certainly the hardestworked part of the oommunitv, and entitled to more attention than they receive from the Government and the House of Commons.” The Bov. R. J. Campbell (of "new theology” fame) wrote saying that the long hours of shop anfristants were a disgrace to the community and utterly unnecessary. _____
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Evening Star, Issue 12687, 13 June 1907, Page 4
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123SHOP ASSISTANTS’ HOURS Evening Star, Issue 12687, 13 June 1907, Page 4
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