http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438814
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-07-31
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note: Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor; Council Official Organ of The Canadian Labor Party- No. 67—eight pages VANOOUVER, B.C., July 31st, 1925 FIVE CENTS PER COPY American Stores Haye a Five Day Week NEW YORK—Is the five-day week gaining jn America? A survey conducted by the New York World shows it is gaining fast in .the larger cities where all the big department stores are closed Saturdays in July and Aug ust, giving their employees two days to go to the seashore or mountain, or rest at home. The movement is also-spreading in ' commercial establishments but the usual arrangement is to carry the - customary work hours over the five- day period to make up for the loss < of time Saturday. There are employers who raise a hue and cry , against the tendency for more leisure for employees as well as the .bosses, but medical authorities in ■ dorse the trend. < Big Stores Shorten Week In nine of the 14 cities surveyed , by The World the leading stores have adopted the shorter work week. In , Atlanta, San Francisco and Detroit it is being tried for the first time 'fllrris summer. Mercantile establishments are closing because in highly organized cen- 'tres the unions get the short work weekf and the members enjoy it far •froi.m the maddening city and are not lifcely to visit the stores. Thus it is 'economical to close them. : ... Unions in Vanguard ■•■ The movement in the unions is to- , ward a Saturday off instead of working a half day. In the garment centres the 44-hour week is now spread over the first five daya-in-the .week:- . This saves the exhausting ride in the subway,to work- on •Bat^tisff^itkge^ tually gains two hours, leisure in the time saved from riding. Two days off a week is getting to be a custom in the big cities and .eventually- will become a custom the nation over as in England, observers declare. The trade unions will have a big shave in this; it is hoped, by striving for the 40-hour, five-day week. VANCOUVER TOPS LIST The …