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Show INSTRUCTIONS TO EMPLOYEES 106 copy OFFICE OF P. W. MADSEN FURNITURE COMPANY Salt Lake City, Utah January 1, 1870 INSTRUCTIONS TO EMPLOYEES OUR NEW BUSINESS CODE: Store will open at 7 AM and close at 3 PM, except on Saturday; will remain closed each Sabbath. DUTIES OF EMPLOYEES: Sweep floors, dust furniture, shelves and show cases; remember "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Trim wicks, fill lpmps, clean chimneys, make your pens carefully (but you may whittle the quills to suit your own individual tastes.) Open windows for fresh air: each clerk shall bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business. Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, gets shaved at the barber shop, or frequents pool halls or public dance halls, will give his employer every reason to suspicion his integrity, worthy intentions and all around honesty. Each employee is expected to pay his tithing to the Church, that is ten per cent of his annual income; no matter what your income might be, you should not contribute less than twenty-five dollars per year to the Church. Each employee will attend Sunday Sacrament meeting, and adequate time will be given to attend Fast meeting on Thursday, Also, you are expected to attend your Sunday School. Men employees will be given one evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings each week if they go regularly to Church and attend to Church duties. After any employee has spent his thirteen hours of labor in the store, he should then spend his leisure time in reading good books, and contemplating the glories and building up of the Kingdom of God. (Signed) P. E. Madsen, Pres. & Mgr. |