SUNDAY IN EUROPE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1907

SUNDAY IN EUROPE.

The Laws in Many Places Already Rigid, Are Being Enforced.

SIXTEEN years ago Switzerland gave all railway employees fifty-two weekly rest days, seventeen on Sunday, and has gradually extended this privilege to nearly all employees and stopped all Sunday freight and excursion trains.

Eight years ago Belgium stopped nine-tenths of its Sunday freight trains.

Recently Holland stopped ninety-nine per cent. and gave most employees one or two free Sundays a month.

Germany has made great progress in recent years in giving employees Sunday rest, especially in stores and factories. Recently 1,600 commercial houses in Frankfort demanded stricter Sunday closing. Many Sunday freights have been stopped, and nearly all in Alsace and Bavaria.

The Minister of Public Works in Prussia guarantees railway employees two rest days a month, generally on Sunday.

In Austria no despatch or delivery of freight is allowed on Sunday.

In Hungary all in factories have Sundays free, if practicable, but must have one whole or two half Sundays free each month.

In Norway, saloons are closed more tightly Sunday than anywhere else.

There and in Sweden, employees have one free Sunday in three, and factories are closed entirely. In Sweden no Sunday theaters or dancing are allowed, and no Monday lessons are given for Sunday study.

Canada's new law greatly reduces Sunday freight, and gives all employees on trains and in most factories one rest day in the next six, when necessity compels Sunday work.

France's Sunday law gives nearly all employees a weekly rest day, part or all on Sunday. Paris hotels now give all waiters and clerks weekly rest days. The railway officials met and arranged to grant weekly rest days to all employees very soon.—Catholic Mirror.