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Show such useless argument is required at all. Business is so rushing with the Carpenter's Car-penter's Union that one night in the week is not quite enough in which to initiate all that desire to join the society, so-ciety, henee special meetings are being called every few days now in order to take care of the applicants. The 300 figure will be reached before the 1st of May without question. The plumbers will bo granted $4 per day of nine hours on or before May 1st, and plumbers will be scarce at that ligure. Somo of the planing mills in town say they will pay their men by the hour after May 1st and run ten hour if they so elect. They may run all night if they will agree to the union scale of wages that applies to a day of nine hours, after which, time and a half must be paid for all overtime. Here is where the milk iu the cocoanul conies in, and the Carpenters'... Union will see to it that the mill owners don't have it all themselves. : THE FIELD OF LABOR., There is Talk Among the Store Clerks of Organizing a Union, THE OBJECT IS EARLY CLOSING. Plenty of Work for the Carpenters Notos of Interest Concerning the Various Trades, Quite a number of store clerks in the city have expressed themselves as being anxious to form a union iu order to inaugurate in-augurate an early closing movement that would become general all over the business pert of the town. Such a movement is not averse to the proprietors of the stores at all, provided that all the business places will closo at the same time and all keep strictly to the agreement. It is a hardship that falls equally upon employer and employe, em-ploye, this seuseless habit of keeping open so late at night, for live nights in the. week, and so very, very late on Saturday night. It is all wrong, and there never can be any valid reason advanced ad-vanced why it should continue any longer. 'The banks close promptly at 3 o'clock every afternoon and no objection is raised by the public; and why? Simply Sim-ply because the bankers formed a combination com-bination to all closo at that time, and i no uung is uoue. The law courts begin at 10 a. in. and close at 4 p. m. The public, offices, city and county, do the same and who can prevent it? .Docs the public sutler from it V A long list of the various branches of business that follow this rule conld be cited as evidence that tho public innen- enal is not to blame for, the shameful state of affairs at present existing in the store business, but on the contrary it can easily be shown that the trouble rests almost entirely with the storekeepers store-keepers themselves. The brewers of Salt Lake until piite lately all worked twelve hours per day. At last they formed a union, and now these same brewers work but ten hours, and the beer interests do not suffer thereby. A union of store employes would bring about the same results, especially could they secure the help of the "Federated "Fed-erated Trades" to sustain them in their just demands. Let them go at it in the right way and they would soon be astonished as-tonished at the good results that would come about through a little effort. The old plan of getting up a list of storekeepers agreeing to close at a certain cer-tain hour, has often been tried and just us often failed, from the very fact that it was not firmly demanded by the clerks as their just right, and hence, "one by one the roses fell." Six o'clock at night is quite late enough for stores to keep open, no matter what anyone says to the contrary, as can be shown by lengthy argument at any time, f c |