The sun., 1897-05-25
MISREPRESENTATION
.o,,cr SUNDAY RAID ON. ITALIAN
iyKs DUE TO THE CLERKS.

. Tired OF working Seven nays IN the
yrsoL, so Got Chief Conlin 70 Cause Their
s,r.r-The Bnnkers say They R1ust no
nu.,ncsS on Sunday to sait Custounerp
Tho members OF tho italian Bank Clerks As
..ootion havo decided that their employers
.sould be compelled to observe the Fourth Com
,n.ndmcnt This was the cause Of half dozen
,,r,hcrry street bank cashiers and bookkeopers
hnr arrested by ward men OF the Elizabeth
,,reet station on Sunday morning and arraigned
h.,ore Magistrate Kudlich in the Centre Street
Police Court charged with violation OF section
osa Of the Penal Code, which reads:
"An labor on Sunday is prohibited. excepting
,,s works Of necessity or charity. In works Of
s.cessity or charity is included whatever is
nsedful during tho day for tho good order,
hoo,th. or comfort OF tho community" g..
Tho Italian Bank Clerks Association was or
..r,yed about n year and a half ago. It has
nembcrship of about seventy.fve all clerks OF
I,.lian banks in different parts Of the city. Tho
rrrnbcrs Of the association have held lately sew
avail meetings, at which the hardship Of having
N work seven days in q week was the sole topic
a,d,scussion. At the latest meeting. held the
latter part OF Inst week. tho yice-Presidont,
virpilio Frnscarolli, was instructed to send q
latter to Chief Conlin, calling his attention to
the fact that their employers were violating the
Sunday law in keeping their banks open on Sun
day.
when Chief Conlin received this letter, the
,ender Of which has since lost his job. he ordered
Capt. Young OF the Elizabeth street station to
,ee that Italian bankers In his precinct who
violated the Sunday law were arrested.
Accordingly clerks or cashiers Of @. Lordi.
40 Mulberry street: Aiello $50 Mulberry
street; NJ. Berardini. 81 Mulberry street; Faust
D. Malzone of SO Mulberry street, and Angelo
Iernti OF 60 Mulberry street, as we'll rs Of p.
Ayaone. who runs bank at the corner Of
Bayard and Mulberry streets. were taken into
custody.
Mulberry street. and those banks that still re-
nsned open closed in hurry. When the men
Wss sf nrhned at first, to dispose Of the cases by
lining the Of lenders. When he mentioned the
subject Of fines he W was surprised to lea learn h. that.
arrested, rn tho men arrested Didn't want to bo
fined or discharged. They wanted to be held to
he cases examined into One Of the clerks said:
violation Of q law of this State. not Of, our own
Ne want these cases tried and the practice of
CUR losses jp keeping their banks open on Sun
fuential Ct the Mulberry street bankers. when
Your Your Honor, the italian bankers are obliged
TO do business on Sunday. The banks are open
S s Sew Of s %
the upper part of the city. who cannot afford to
lose days pay during the week TO 60 to their their
SSnkine business. II these men are guilty. they
are guilty Of violating the letter and not the
spirit Of the law; No one would be better pleased
tohave all OF Sunday for recreation than the
bankers themselves"
Magistrate Kudlich told Mr.. Lordi that. IL his
md men in other lines Of business might, with
equal Justice, be allowed to keep open on Sun
day. He had never known before OF the para. n,o;
Those held furnished bonds. Avaiione said that
and 1t was to attend to the bicycle business that
bis store was open. He was dlscharged.
When en- seen eIy Yesterday in reference to the ar
This Sunday business has always, been a
necessity with us. We not only do banking
tn'sS: the New wy York Post once. Many of our eus
toners, most of them in fact, have their mail
sent directly to us. This relieves the Post Office
OF great amount Of work. Instead of being
obliged to deliver. letters to various addresses.
the letters are simply delivered to us, having
them. Those of our customers who do not live
near the banks, and many of them do not, would
ShS ywss In GTas SSs
ness they need to were they not able to attend
to both matters on Sunday.
Is not 'has ths aes banks
eA. N. to IL NJ. But even those hours are
much more irksome to the bankers than they
can possibly be to their clerks. No one would
Il the banks were closed on Sunday. We insist,
though. that, II certain banks are to close. all
must Close not only those In Mulberry street,
but wherever they may be all over the city"
The bankers have an association. called the
Italian Steamship Agents Association, Of which
Mr.. Lordi is the President. There will be a
meeting OF that association some day this week,
and the bankers will then decide what course
they will pursue about closing next Sunday and
succeeding Sundays, until the cases OF their
clerks are disposed Of in the Court Of Special