The vote reveals that the majority want the holiday.

The Store Council so reports to the firm, and the firm must grant the holiday.
All matters of difficulty arising between employers and employed, in the Filene store, are settled not by the firm, but by the Arbitration Board of Employees, also elected by popular vote.

All disagreements as to wages, position, promotion, all questions of personal issue between saleswomen and aislemen, or others in authority, are referred to the Board of Arbitration, and the board's decision is final.

There is no tyranny of the buyer, no arbitrary authority of the head of a department.

Every clerk knows that her tenure is secure as long as she is an efficient saleswoman.
Surely it is not too much to hope that, in a future not too far distant, all women who earn their bread will serve a system of industry adjusted by law to human standards.