Illinois State Senator Michael F. Zlatnik warned here today that members of the State Legislature would attempt to reword and amend the state’s Sunday Closing Law to eliminate the technicality upon which it was declared unconstitutional. The State Supreme Court struck down the law last year on the grounds that it singled out one group–automobile dealers.
Senator Zlatnik, who addressed the tenth annual convention here of the Council of Traditional Synagogues of Greater Chicago, said that only a united Jewry could prevent the new legislation from passing. He deplored the fact that the only opposition to it during the 1961 session of the Legislature “came from the American Jewish Congress and the militant editorials in the Chicago Sentinel.”
The legislator predicted that another bill of special interest to Illinois Jewry–a humane slaughtering act- was “not likely to pass.”
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