More than 300 seventh-day-observing merchants met this afternoon at the Broadway Central Hotel to plan a campaign for an amendment to the existing Sunday laws enabling conscientious Saturday observers to attend to their ordinary vocations on Sunday unmolested.
This conference was held in connection with the 32nd annual meeting of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, organized for the defense and promotion of the seventh day Sabbath. Among the speakers were Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, State Senator Philip M. Kloinfeld and Alderman Samuel Insolbuch. Stress was laid on unemployment among Jewish young men and women seeking employment without Sabbath violation. The Alliance maintains an employment bureau for these religionists and has already placed over 35,000 men and women, all of them free from Saturday work.
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