Butchers Seek Compulsory Sunday Rest
THE butchers of New York City want Sunday rest, but do not want it enough to be willing to take it at the expense of any loss in trade. They are perfectly free to rest on Sunday if they choose to, so far as any law is concerned. The only obstacle is the knowledge that while their shops were closed, some one else would be getting Sunday trade, and the thought of such a thing is unpleasant. So they have decided to force all butchers to close up on Sundays in order that those who wish to close may enjoy their rest undisturbed by the thought that some one else is taking in money by keeping open. The New York Times states that “a vigorous protest” against Sunday selling will be made to Police Commissioner McAdoo “by a committee of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America and the American Federation of Labor, in accordance with a resolution passed by the Kosher Meat Cutters’ Local Union No. 399 at a mass-meeting held on Monday night. William C. Wellman,” it is stated further, “who is business agent for local unions Nos. 50 and 399, said yesterday that unless the protest to Commissioner McAdoo resulted in compelling the offenders to suspend work on Sunday, the unions would place a boycott on those who are disregarding the law.” Sunday enforcement is henceforth to be more and more associated with the labor unions and the boycott.