War Production Defies Sunday Laws
REPORTS from Wall Street say that “large war orders received by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company have forced that company to a seven-day-a-week schedule.” This great company, whose legitimate business is the making of air brakes for cars, has turned aside from its normal course, along with nearly all the other big manufacturing companies of the country, for the manufacture of war materials. But what about the idea of a “seven-day-a-week schedule” in old Pennsylvania, the great mother of Sunday laws, and the great defender of Sunday rest? If Sunday laws were consistently enforced, they would be invoked against great concerns of this character as well as against the individual of smaller influence.