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STRIPPED TO THK WAIST. THK WOKKF.KS SWEAT BEFORE THE BLAST FURNACE.<br />
that every workman shall have one free<br />
(lay in seven, thus elTectively supplementing<br />
the old Sunday laws in those<br />
industries where operations are necessarily<br />
continuous. On May 19, 1910,<br />
however, there was introduced into the<br />
New York Senate a bill calling? for fiftytwo<br />
rest<br />
within the year for all employes, at least<br />
seventeen of these rest days to be on the<br />
Sabbath. Owinii: to the fact that the<br />
bill was intnnluced late in the year it was<br />
days of twenty-four hours each<br />
not passed, but will be broui,dit up ag-ain<br />
at the next meetine^ of the senate.<br />
As it is pro])osed to make this bill the<br />
model for similar bills to be introduced<br />
in all other states where seven-day labor<br />
exists, the followitii;- extract from it is<br />
fi^iven<br />
"All labor on Sunday is prohibitetl.<br />
excepting the works of necessity and<br />
charitv. In works of necessity or charity<br />
is included whatever is needful during<br />
the day for the good order, health or<br />
comfort of the community.<br />
"In the case of Sunday labor, permitted<br />
on the ground of being w^orks of necessity<br />
or charity, or by special statute, it<br />
shall not be lawful, except in cases of<br />
extraordinary emergency caused by fire,<br />
flood, or danger to life or property, for<br />
any person, partnership, association or<br />
corporation to require or permit any person<br />
under their authority to do, on Sunday,<br />
the usual work of his occupation,<br />
unless such an employe has been allowed,<br />
during the six days next ])receding such<br />
Sundav. twenty-four consecutive hours<br />
without labor, nor unless during the i)receding<br />
nine weeks, three of his rest days<br />
shall have been on Sunday. Provided,<br />
however, that in case any jierson shall<br />
have filed with the county clerk of the<br />
county in which he labors an affidavit<br />
stating that he has conscientious scruples<br />
which lead him to prefer to keep any<br />
day other than Sunday as a holy<br />
day and free from labor, it shall not be<br />
lawful to employ him on Sunday, unless,<br />
during the preceding nine wxeks, three
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