Production of Monday’s issue of your paper involves Sunday labour and artificers, workmen, and labourers are employed by you on Sunday, Mr. R. H. cox, has written in a letter addressed on behalf of the Sunday Games and Freedom League to a number of newspapers. As you will be aware, the Sunday Observance Act of 1677 prohibits such workmen from following their ordinary calling on Sundays and by so acting they are infringing the provisions of the statute in question and you are guilty of aiding and abetting such workmen to commit the offence. I shall be glad to hear that you will stop the practice of employing such workmen on Sundays and so conform to the present legal position. If not I am desired by my committee to instruct … solicitor to apply for summonses against both you and your workmen for breach of the statute.
Mr. G. A. … M.P. (not a Jew) has introduced a Sunday Observance (Amendment) Bill into the House of Commons on behalf of the Society of West End Theatre Managers, to legalise the opening of places of amusement on Sundays, which was recently ruled by the King’s Bench Divisional Court to be illegal.
The appeal of the Theatre and Music Halls. Committee of the London Country council which was involved in that action, against the decision of the court holding them to have …ed illegally in permitting Sunday cinema shows within their area is in to-day’s list for the Court in which Lords Justices Scrutton, Greer and Slesser are sitting.
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