Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-31
SOUTH ARSOy.
MORN .ON SIfNnAX-

WORK ON SUNDAY.
lihe United States of America is
%tyled the land of the free and the
nome OF the brave, and we remember
Wnen as we were growing into man.
mood thae here in the northland we
i@aaehteu and condemned the slavery
~ the negro In the southland. Then
same the civil war, resulting in tho
apcushing OF negro slavery In the
9 soutn and with it the closing of the
Wal anu an unprecedented reign OF
Pfosperity. The colntry expanded
sA'pofations flourishei and have h.
S'pme factions of immense power, con-
.Ioillhg about everything in the land
YS,espt thc general government, nad
whie ehe millions of slaves have had
snacKles OF bondage removed
rom their shoulders 1t seemingly has
resulted, only In a difforeni manner
n placing the shackles upon The lab,
Qring man of the north. Now tho
e2fporations of this part of the conn
try WELD such power and are so
! sHiosely allied that they say If a man.
70 matter what his ability may be. Il
over thirty-five years of age, they will
&tRe MIN no permanent occupation
AHu IN our town the great p. r. r.
S,orporation has hundreds of men who
nltoW ,.l no her>business but the hand
.sie oI coal, who are living day by
.'Ay dtthe beck and call of those who
s'1<fsss' are treating them worse than
tss&&e majority OF the colored men In
t<A@ palmiest days of American slay-
Sry- What the stakeholder did be-
.ofe war IN most cases had the sane
tipn of the law, but the white slave
NfAvef OF the north today plies his |
paneful occupation OF driving men to
sittlate the greed of the corporations
~ direct violation of the law of the |
land.
On the statute books of the state
81 New Jersey ii is printed in as plain
EsnElish Language as possible that 1t
n unlawful TO follow your daily avo-
catiopsD on the Sabbath day, but the
pQy<crs that be in South Amboy are
%ot satisfied with desecrating the
rSabbath and violating the law of the
land by compelling men to work on
Tho Sabbath day, but any one who
stays at home from work Sunday. |
conscientiously or from any other
cause, is quickly told Monday that
hiS services are no longer needed, no
matter IL the law both morally and
legally are on his side, he must go, as
was the case of the young man en-
pi0yed at the coal wharves who re-
fused to work last Sunday and Mon
day he was told his services were no
longer needed. Why? Not because
she had not done his work we'll and
faithfully, but because he refused to
work on the Sabbath. Now this young
man, we understand, was legally dis
.abled that prevented his complying
with the requirements of those placed
in power by the corporation by whom
he was employed. How long, oh, how
long, Is thisSstate of things to exist?
Every year the large corporations of
the country become more and more
oppressive to those in their employ.
We have never been favorable to
strikers, but we believe that men
would be justified in banding to-
gether and saying to tho corporations
employing them that not one of us
will do a stroke of work from Satur-
day night until Monday morning for
the following reasons. Our physical
natures require the rest; morality adj
monishes as to keep the Sabbath day:
the law Of the land commands it's OBJ
seFvance and the Divine commands !
rs to observe the Sabbath day and |
keep 1t holy.
The reason why this article is writ |
ten for publication is by request and |
because we believe what we say that |
barring the buying and selling there
are many laboring men in our own
town who are as much slaves as the
colored slave of the south before the
sixties and we hope that every man
who reads this article, whether in our
town or any other that has men
placed under his supervision. will re-
member that we are all men and
don't, just because man has to work
to support his family, compel him to
sin against God, violate the law by
working on Sunday, If he is conscien-