Between thirty and forty Jewish storekeepers appeared Friday before the local laws committee of the Board of Aldermen to protest a proposed bill introduced by Alderman Walter J. Hart of Brooklyn for the establishment of a uniform eighty-hour week for all retail food stores.
The opponents of the bill expressed a fear enactment would mean their observance of the Sabbath would be interfered with. Alderman Hart explained that the proposed measure provides the stores must not remain open more than eighty hours a week but does not specifically prescribe how the hours are to be distributed.
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