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Show 'HALF HOLIDAY : PLAN DISCUSSED Alfred Gladwell Declares Plan Works Well in Old Country i Editor Ogden Standard-Examiner: It was with great repvot 'That l learned of the opposition to the weekly week-ly ha'f hoHiday movement by local retail merchants. They certainly have my deepest sympathy. Those of us who have emigrated from European countries where the weekly half-holiday has been the ctiS' torn for many years, know of its benefits bene-fits to botji employe and employer, and when we arrived in this country we were astonished to find that workers work-ers in this great republic were denied much of the freedom that Is enjoyed by subjects of kingdoms: The spirit I reduced somewhat, 1 am sure, if in this great free country they were not expected lo grind at ihejr tasks eacn week I'rcin early Monday m rnlng until un-til Saturday evening wiihjul a little j change. Will the happy day never dawn when the worker villi b? looked upon as something more than a mere mnchine for the production of wealth for the capitalistic class. All ho)iv.r io wins.' iial mrrchanis who for several years have given their employes a weekly half-h liday. And l) those who oppose the mov ment well, may the Lord havt? mervy upon their benighted so.ils. Of course, the weekly half-holiday Aould "hurt business.' That's what we hear if all great reforms. Trohibl- ilil .d8 S.ipp'jSi U t 1. 1 . .. i. Old it 7 What if it did? "A hat shah .. profit a n he gain the ...... .orid and lose his own soul?" Tnat. unfortunate!', is what many a business busi-ness man is doing today. l.n I. .. " J)M -Pfl ihe nioveuent for the w okly rest for workers believe in the strict enforce- yi .1.' . Uullil V. lllll.. Willi. .C .Ll least, tl. part which says. "Six day-shall day-shall tl.u.j lab. r and do all thy work." But. pjs.-ibly they care but littlo if the oilier part of the connnau Jme it is observed: ob-served: Reme.ubci ih. Sab. a h day o keep it holy." '1 hose of us who favor the movc-1 movc-1 inent mean to work for it until our hopes are realized. We h ve labored ip. years for oihcr refonns rnd oar i"it.rts have b..en ciownal with success, suc-cess, and we :ro not afraid to make this vetiturr. We expected opposition, but we confiden.ly predict in.it the opposition op-position will meet tne s.- me depot that was experienced by the great Philis-lin Philis-lin who was sent Ij his ucom by a i-mal sl ni fim u e sling of a littlo b . named Dn id. Yun-j very truly, ALFRED CILADWELL. .31) hi Ad -ms Avenue. |