New Combinations for Sunday Law
By Editor
[The following from the "Free Labor News Service Syndicate," San Francisco, we print without comment. To the careful observer it speaks for itself.—EDITOR S. OF T.] The Rev. Charles Stelze reports progress in his great work of merging the labor unions with the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Mr. Stelze's latest is to have a "labor Sunday" on which all pulpits in the Protestant churches will be thrown open to labor leaders to expound their particular labor doctrines. A pact is being made by which the merger will gain the strength of the Prohibitionists and the labor element will vote with the latter in an attempt to make the state "dry." This step was taken by the Labor Councils of the various cities with a view to wreaking a proper vengeance on the brewers, who refused to come to the aid of the striking hands during the last walk-out at Los Angeles. In connection with the program of the two ministers who have become so distinguished in labor circles, it is proposed to lend all the aid of the labor element, in the next legislature, to the enactment of a Sunday closing law. The Rev. Stuart Reid is the paramount representative of Mr. Samuel Gompers in California, in charge of the machinists' strike, and the Rev. Stelze is the man who originated the idea of the church and labor merger. Undoubtedly both great bodies will work harmoniously and to the great good of man.