THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2288, 27 November 1889, Page 2

THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

1O 188 EDITOR,

S?in, — In cDßwor ta the '•'Oountry Bampkin l^" question, as to whether tb* farmer's m<m hae not an equal right to the h«If«ho iday with thofchop employee, I nay be hrn not the same ground for argument, for it is not tho h.ard work that the shop employes complains of ; bat the confinement and late houra on Saturday nights, the continual emell of goods (oupeoially drapoia) and not anffioieat fresh air. Now the farmer's man has a,ay amount of the latter and npna of the former. " Ooqntry Bampkin " is aleo wrong m his assertion that the majority, of the country people are aßninet the half-holi-day, nod his whole holiday ono3 a month is a f ai 00. The farmer would forget when t the onoe a month holiday oouurred, and | trouble would arise m oonaeiqaenoe* In i coaolnsion I maintain that an employer who hue his employee^ interests at heart, would do as he would liko to be done by, and Rive his hands the Wednesday halfholiday without any trouble — Youra, eto , 1 A Sympathises*