| Show IlK DVER EARl Y t I CLOSING PROJECT Club Women Merchants and EmploY s Meet to tto Discuss the Movement i 1 BOOST HOME GOODS TOO PROMISES TO DUY cUTAH PROD PRODUCTS r ry y RIGHT PRICES Resolutions calling catling for tor the closing of ot nearly aU all business houses on nn Sunday Sunda especially grocery and meat stores and for 6 closing of ot stores on Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day for the of payday from Saturday to Monday and for the pay payment payment payment ment In cash instead of by check and for the support of pf goods were passed In a jump junu at a Joint meeting of at club women retail etall clerks retail butchers and grocers manufacturers manufacturers and a few theca held In the rooms of ot the Retal Merchants association tion last night The meeting had been heen called chieflY for tor the purpose of forming a club to have as its object the building up of Utah factories but it was was decided by the club women themselves that it would be better for them ahem to take the matter before their respective organisations a and aad let then theca determine what was wall best But the women let it be known clearly that they were in favor of buy ing Utah goods so o long as they were w re of the quality and at the same samo price as t r other products Many Agree to Close f It was announced during the meeting that nearly all alt of at the business houses hous of the business district had agreed to close at 6 Saturday night with two exceptions Representatives of 1 f some of ot the women clubs and the clerks associations will wait upon pro proprietors proprietors proprietors of these stores this afternoon and three members from the Retail Merchants association will also be on hand to urge early closing An effort will be made through all organizations working together to Induce all allot of the merchants to close their doors C Cs E secretary of the Re Retail Retail tail taU Clerks association gave a short history of the work which has been done by the clerks to get the stores to close Ioe early and announced that thirty six new names nam s have been added to the list of members from rom one store He said that through bis organization which is a branch of the Utah Federation Feder Federation of Labor all aU 11 of ot the union umon organ organizations organizations a of the city had been asked to have havoC their wives do their shopping dur during durIng during ing the day and thus Allow the early closing As Az s long ns fiS the merchant sees the people coming in Jus his doors he will keep them open said Mr but it will not take long tar for him to close at 6 if he finds no people coming in though he be still stin has hal to pay for tor the lights burned up to 9 and after So it is up to the people to do their th Ir shopping early and then the merchants will be willing lo to close their doors early There was an investing Jr bout between the manufacturers the grocers gro JS and the women in which the grocers groc r seemed to have the best o oIt it both ways They Th y declared the then were more than willing to ro boost the th Utah goody goods and would do all aU in their power to advance the Utah Goods for Utah People campaign But they declared that in some instances the manufacturers I ers would woul not permit them to do this ps fis they insisted on a certain price for tor their product which was Will more than was charged for the goods from the tte east and at the same time a smaller margin mar in yas as allowed for tor the retailer The retail merchants opened their meeting to the clerks cler s and the manufacturers manufacturers to see gee what they could do for tor both hoth organizations and it resulted in ina ina a general in which earn each voted to help the other Defends Defend Utah Products Dan Collett secretary of the Mer Merchants Merchants Merchants chants Manufacturers association had tad charge of the meeting part of ot the tho time and declared that the product of the Utah manufacturers waa w WA 3 on a par paron paron paron on the whole with that shipped In from other centers H He declared that the goods merited merito 1 the support of the tnt women of the city and when this support came cameI in Ia I a great reat advance would be shown in both the and nd the tho size alae of the factories fa Mrs Hr Elizabeth II M f Cohen president of the Womans Wom ns league and other wom women women en n rid ei f id that at t this time It would be unwise for the women to form another dub club to take vp tP the work but that the Hubs el ibs s now noV organized might be induced to add a separate committee which would have the advancement of Utah 1 products as Its object Mrs Olive Ha Havens Hayens Havens vens yens declared there th re I were more active club in Salt Sat Lake than any had ever known and she be believed they could do 10 a great reat work in behalf of ot the manufacturers of Utah O 0 IL Hewlett admitted that the wom women women women en were the ones who could do the work tor far the manufacturers as they did most of the ordering of goods and if they desired it would be only the Utah goods which would ba be b sold Bold from the shelves of the thi th grocers He lie said tho the manufacturers were willing to aid in suppers and other affairs and thought that with reciprocity there would be no question guestion that it would be a great advantage lo to the producers of the state Mr tr Hewlett said sald that the grocers were a good deal to blame for tor the small amount of Utah goods sold In Salt Lake LaIte because e they did not push them themas as they did goods shipped in Both Austin Hudson and Eli Price took exceptions to the remarks of Mr Hewlett and declared they were only I I too glad with other retailers to boost boos I Ithe the Utah products But they declared that in some instances they were not allowed to do this by the Utah manu manufacturers manufacturers i themselves It was stated state that one instance was in the canned cream furnished by Utah factories and by outsiders It was declared that the eastern ea em canned cream Is shipped In cheaper than the home product that a larger margin is allowed to the grocer and that instead of twenty ounces as claimed the tha Utah cans contain only I eighteen ounces It was shown that thai 1 while the Utah product has to be sold here at 10 cents per can straight the I same output is sold on the coast for I three cans for 25 cents and the stores paying the freight I Favor Home Products I i imst Ell Eli Price told of an Incident of the past mst when a Utah concern canned as asparagus asparagus asparagus coming into the field before any others At first the concern concen charged per case and could not noL supply the tle demand Then the price wen w went nt up to and still the demand was too great for the supply both here am and other places Finally he said the price was 8 s per case and all aU the time the farmer was was getting the seine same price for his asparagus as in the first Instance InstanceS 5 S cents a pound Then other canned asparagus came upon the market at a reasonable figure but the Utah product was held high When the grocer could do nothing with It the price was dropped to per case again He cited this as an Instance where the manufacturer hurt his own business Mr Hewlett answered the price ques question question question tion by declaring that If more of ot the Utah goods were purchased here at at home the grocer would get a better price G W Farrington representing an Ogdon Ogden brand of pork and beans said salt i he had done good business in Salt Lake He spoke of ot cne one time when a woman had asked his aid in a church function incidentally informing him that her family were great eaters of at pork and beans bearn and that they always ate an eastern pastern manufacturers product I told her that was very nice that thai the easterner put out good pork and boons beans and that it was quite the proper thing for her to spend her money with our competitor a company away from home and that when she wanted some something somethIng something thing free to call upon us And then I sent cent up goods goads worth 1050 1650 and paid JUO drayage on it ii The retail merchants are after some of their own members who refuse to keep their stores closed on Sunday and declare they con can do nothing with them Mrs Mr Cohen and alid the other women want wanted wanted wanted ed to know tr tt names declaring they could take action which would bring the grocers to time It Itis Itis is 3 the women will work with the grocers in II the movement to insist that the stores be closed Sunday The grocers declared they would do every thing lhing in their power for the 6 closing and will try to make the practice practice practice tice uniform throughout the city |
