Response, typewritten. Titled "Shop Hours Act"; a draft response to a petition circulating about half day closing in Limerick, rebutting statements in the petition point by point. Draft proposed for circulation to trades and for publication in the papers. Corrections and changes, in pencil and blue pencil, made throughout; in pencil at top "Half Holiday Movement". Seven sheets held together by split fastener, six used and first five numbered. On legal paper with wide left margin, vertical blue printed margin line with lines to right. Watermark, "John McDonnell & Co Ltd/ Swift Brook"