The commission on social justice of the Central Conference of American Rabbis is in favor of the five-day week in American industry and is also for an “intelligent regulation of birth,” according to a statement by the commission which is to be read at Reform synagogues throughout the country during the High Holiday period. Dr. Edward I. Esrael, rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation of this city, is chairman of the commission.
“If our constantly improving machinery with its replacement of human workers is not to produce unemployment before it produces aught else,” says the statement, “not only must the number of working days a week be reduced, there must also be a diminution of working hours a day, with corresponding increases of wage rates, enabling all workers to earn sufficiently.”
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