Show Cedar Retailers Adopt Fair Competition Code I I Under the leadership cf the Chamber Chamb r of Commerce Merchants Committees I retailers of Cedar city have ha worked out a code of fair competition to be followed in this community iri hf conI connection con con- I with Ith the National Recovery Act lief All retailers have hue agreed whole heartedly to get behind the move and are signing up for the Blue Eagle as rapidly as they can adjust their business and employees hours to meet the necessary requirements It is expected ex- ex that within a week every in Cedar w wll il be displaying the Blue Eagle In practically every Instance the working hours of employees have been reduced to the code limit and new employees are being put on to take up the extra time tune The matter of uniform hours in Cedar has long been difficult to accomplish but at a meeting of merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants cf of C Cedar dar held Friday an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment was reached to eliminate unfair competition and a code was agreed upon with practically every ery business represented and voting to comply It has been agreed to keep grocery dry goods hardware produce and general merchandise stores open 60 hours per week which means that they the y will open at 8 o'clock a a. a m. m and close at 6 p. p m. m everyday in the week except except except ex ex- ex- ex Sunday The merchants ask customers cus cus- to adjust their shopping t to these hours and help the retailer t to o live up to the code L Local cal merchants are to t follow tollow th the code of fair competition ap approVed approved approved ap- ap proved by the Utah State Retailers Retailers' Association which sets up the following followIng follow follow- ing leg ruling on this particular phase o of f the code Section 3 c Not c-Not Not to reduce the hours of any store or service operation n to below two fifty-two 52 hours in an any anyone anyone y one week unless such hours were le lethan less than two fifty 52 hours per wee week before July I 1 1 1933 and In the latter case not to reduce redu e such hours at all Every Every- ret retailer ill in- town town- has agreed I to abide by the closing code with the th e exception of two Chas R. R Hunter manager of the Hunter Hardware estore store has refused on the grounds grounds' that tha The President says we should not shorten working hours His announcement announcement announce announce- ment and explanation of this stand stend appears In the company's advertisement elsewhere in this issue Pratt Houchen Houch- Houch en manager of the Standard Supply Co has not yet agreed to the code but stated to the Editor this morning that he would attempt to adjust his business so that he could comply in inthe inthe the near future |