California’s Sunday Law Agitation
By Editor
It may not be said that our Sunday law friends in California are laboring to secure to the toiler his weekly day of rest from hard work irrespective of religion; for there is just such a law upon the statute-books of California now, and we have called repeated attention to it. It was passed, we believe, in 1893, and is numbered 3,952. It provides that "every person employed in any occupation of labor shall be entitled to one day's rest therefrom in seven, and it shall be unlawful for any employer of labor to cause his employees, or any of them, to work more than six days in seven." Emergency cases are excepted. The violation of this law is a misdemeanor. Just the other day a Japanese proprietor of a moving picture theater was tried and fined $10.00 for failure to give an employee a day off in the week. But this law is not satisfactory to our religio-political reformers. It is a Sunday law that is wanted. It is the religious law. But religious legislation can have no just place in a free commonwealth.