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Show CAN YOU ANSWER THIS ARGUMENT? By Special New Service. NEW YORK, June t The employes of a jGreene street cloak and suit concern con-cern applied thl. year for a vacation of two weeks, with pay. They were Informed In-formed by their reasonably melancholy faced boa. that they could not hav. It because of lh. w.r and lax trade condition.. condi-tion.. Lat.r on. they held a meeting of protest and at fhe close of the day. when receiving their pay, they found the following time analysis In their envelupes, accompanied by a request that they consider th. content, over Bunday: "Dear Kmployes: We ar quite ready to be fair regarding vacation, but wish to call attention. to our consideration con-sideration for you In the matter of daily service. To begin with, you sleep eight hours a day, which makes 122 day., subtracted from Hi days, that leaves but 243. You have eight hours of recreation rec-reation each day, which equals 122 dsys anfl leaves but 121 days In whlcn you can do any work. There are fifty-two Bundays on which you do not work here and that leaves a balance bal-ance of alxty-nlne day. In the year that you could possibly work for us. "Our place la cloeed on Saturday afternoon., which give, you fifty-twv half holiday, or twenty-nrx full daya, and leave but forty-three working days. We allow yon one hoar a day for lunch, which In a year's time equals sixteen day. and leave, but twenty-aeven day. on which w. demand any work of you in exchange for your very good incomes. If we give you a two weeks' vacation that will leave only thirteen vrkirMrdavsTerearvejlveega holldaya on whloh wo close, no that 1 would leave but one workmg day, and Inasmuch as we cloee always on Tom Kippur you would not do any work at alL "Dear employes, please hav. a heart. |