p. 16 | A Day of Rest Without Law

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

A Day of Rest Without Law

The working man needs a day of rest, but it is not necessary that he should obtain that through civil law. Pennsylvania has had one of the most radical Sunday laws since colonial times, but it did not give Sunday rest to the iron-workers in Pittsburg and Allegheny. Yet not very long ago the men began working for it themselves, in connection with the companies, and many of them have secured their one day of rest in seven, entirely without the law. Yet there are those who are inaugurating a nation-wide campaign to obtain one day in seven for industrial workers, and as usual they are hoping to shelve all responsibility between man and man, and endeavor to get the state to do what expediency, conscience, and business ought to do between the employers and employees.