Show SPANKING IN STORE I Retail Clerks Association to Be Censured I THEIR ACTION WAS HAST Y I < r R OP THE PEDEHATED TRADES TAJDKS > Says He Considers the Clerks Slapped Slap-ped His Organization In the PacS When They Allowed Politicians to Work Them Into Passing a Resolution Againsfc Barnes i The Retail Clerks associations in a fair way to get the warmest Kind of a spanking f from the Federated Trddes for allowing Itself to be worked by Joe Cottle and other scheming politicians at what was supposed to be a social gathering The clerks it will be remembered re-membered got gay and condemned Arthur Ar-thur F Barnes because he W is guided by the opinion of the city attorney on tho Sunday closing ordinance The clerks at the behest of the schemers aforesaid took their action in spite of the fact well known to them that a committee of the Federated Feder-ated Trades had been appointed to see Mr Barnes and ask him about his position po-sition relative to Sunday closing and early closing in the evening Thi dom mlttee saw Salt Lakes next mayor and had a most satisfactory talk with him He explained his position to them and succeeded in satisfying them of the justice jus-tice of it itWill Will Condemn Clerks The committee will report at the regular reg-ular meeting of Federated Trades next Friday night unless a called meeting meet-ing Is determined upon It is more than likely that the report will contain a suggestion that the clerks be censured for their hasty acti9n and that the organization or-ganization take no further action in I the matter A member of the committee said last night that he considered the action of Cottles men a direct slap at the Federated Feder-ated Trades He declared his belief that the clerks should be sevarely disciplined dis-ciplined for it As a matter of fact he continued Mr Barnes stand on I the question of closing on Sunday and early on week days is thoroughly satisfactory satis-factory to organized labor in Salt Lake If the clerics had ru kick coming to them they should have first presented it to the Federated Trades Then if that body saw fit to pass resolutions or take other action the matter would have been regularly conducted The clerks however saw fit to take matters Into their own hands They werent willing to wait until our committee had formulated a report for the politicians who were behind the movement knew that report would be favorable to Mr Barnes Nothing But Tools The clerks have allowed themselves to be made tools of by men who belong be-long to their organization for political purposes only Their resolution will have the effect only of making them the laughing stock of the Federated I Trades It wont even make them solid agalnst Barnes because the members who were for the Democratic candidate before will be for him all the stronger now while thoso who were against him will still follow their natural inclinations inclina-tions Our investigation of the question developed that Mr Barnes was handed a resolution by one of the clerks ask ingfor an ordinance rjrovidlng for Sunday I Sun-day closing The paper that was handed hand-ed to him was simply a rough pencil draft The night the council met he handed this draft to a stenographer to I run off on a typewriter Before the work was finished Robertson sprung I his resolution which was practically the same as the one handed to Mr BarnesFavored Favored the Ordinance Naturally enough when Robertson took the action he intended to take Mr Barnes could not see the necessity for cumbering the city records with two resolutions calling for the same thing He didnt introduce the resolution handed to him but he voted for the one handed to Robertson He was in favor of the ordinance all the time until un-til the city attorney decided that it could not be enforced on account of the discrimination made against certain classes of business men As a sensible man Mr Barnes did not wish to vote for any law that couldnt be enforced so when the ordinance or-dinance was brought in in spite of Mr Halls opinion he voted against it I for one am satisfied that he did the I right thing If the clerks have any protests to make they should make them against Hall and not Barnes for Barnes has acted as any sensible man would act throughout the whole business busi-ness |