Jewish Congress Asks N.j. Legislature to Defeat Sunday Closing Bill

The New Jersey Legislature was called upon today to defeat a Sunday closing bill which was reported favorably yesterday by the State Assembly’s Public Welfare and Health Committee. The call against passage of the bill was issued here by Adrian M. Unger, president of the New Jersey region of the American Jewish Congress. The bill is scheduled to come up for a vote in the Legislature at Trenton next Monday.

The selection of Sunday as the only recognized day of rest “is a flagrant attempt to establish the tenets of a particular sectarian creed as incumbent upon all residents of this State,” Mr. Unger declared. Failure to exempt from the Sunday closing law those who observe another religious day of rest, said Mr. Unger, jeopordizes “the freedom of conscience of a large segment of the New Jersey religious community.”