" ROBBING THE TOILERS."
BAMBOOZLING THE PUBLIC. The gentle art of " bamboozling the public" in connection with the "compulsory Saturday Half-holiday is now being engaged in. A supporter of this movement in Christchurch called the return to the mid-week half-holiday "robbing the toilers"! Alas! how bias will (fistort facts! As a matter of truth, it i s the taking away of the Saturday shopping facilities from the workers and their wives that is the veal and actual "robbing the toilers." The convenience of the hardworked mother of half a dozen young children, who is continually strivin«- to spend her husband's wages' to the °best advantage, is to stand aside for the benefit and at the instigation of a few shop assistants, backed up by a number of agitators —the type that's agin'' everything that is and in favour of everything that isn't! Christchurch was bustled by this class into adopting the " compulsory" Saturday Halfholiday, and is now largely rebelling against it. As one of the " toilers"—and we are nearly all such—protect your interests against being deprived by " classes" or "masses" of the shopping privileges you now enjoy.—Advt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16348, 3 April 1915, Page 9
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