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The Retail Union saw to that through its all-potent Publication Committee . Perceiving the crescent emancipation of the `` Clarion , '' Mrs. Willard , after due consultation with her husband , appealed to Hal . Would he help the League to obtain certain reforms ? Specifically , seats for shopgirls , and extra pay for extra work , as during Old Home Week , when the stores kept open until 10 P.M. ? Hal agreed , and , in the face of the dismalest forecasts from Shearson , prepared several editorials . Moreover , `` Kitty the Cutie '' took up the campaign in her column , and her series of `` Lunch-Time Chats , '' with their slangy , pungent , workaday flavor , presented the case of the overworked saleswomen in a way to stir the dullest sympathies . The event fully justified Shearson in his rôle of Cassandra .