New York’s City Council is expected to act next week on a proposed request to the State Legislature to pass a pending bill to permit merchants who observe their Sabbath on Saturday to keep their businesses open on Sunday. Yesterday, some 500 persons picketed City Hall in an effort to get the Council to make the request, which had been promised to the Jewish Sabbath Alliance by Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
The demonstration yesterday, headed by Rabbi Meyer Cohen, executive director of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, had the support of a large number of Orthodox organizations. The pickets distributed leaflets charging that the present Sunday laws work to the detriment of observant Jews who face the necessity of Keeping their shops open on the Sabbath or losing business to competitors who are open on Saturday.
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