The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
Police Committee FavOrs Rad
zeal Sunday Closing.
Won't Extend the List of
Necessaries to Be Sold.
FROM TRADES UNION.
They Favor Sunday Laws With
Restrictions.
Two or Three Petitions Will Be
Presented Tonight.

PRESENTED Tonight.
A revision of the Sunday closing or
dinance but one which will place the
ban on Sunday sales of every char
acter of merchandise except such as
may be construed to be necessities, in
cluded In which will not be tobacco
candies and sodawater, Is what the
council committee on police will recon-
mend.
The committee meets this evening
and on the membership are Councilmen
II. B. Howard, E. Montgomery and z.
2. Stanley.
That the above will be the character
OF the revision is the expression of the
committee as 1t is voiced by members
this afternoon. 1t will take big array
or facts of a different kind than have
been presented thus far to shake the
position that the members of the COM
mittee have adopted.
81 feel sure that there will not be
amy backward step taken from the
&present Sunday law enforcement" said
Councilman Stanley. IT believe that
the action of the committee will be that
anything that constitutes the necessi-
ties of daily life may be sold on Sun
day.
Some revision will probably be made
of the ordinance to make it more
specific. 1 don't care to say in ad-
vance or taxing any dCC1On what acLlOn
! expect to take" said Councilman
Montgomery. II have made up my
mind pretty we'll however as what
shall do
Il guess it is pretty generally known
how / stand and so / don't think 1t Is
necessary for me to say anything" said
Councilman Howard who is chairman
of the committee.
The committee does not construe can
dies cigars and the sundries usually
oxx G necessities.
believe they can be purchased on Satur-
day If necessary in sufficient quantt-
ties to tide over the next twenty-four
hours.
From the looks of things, therefore,
as far as the committee is concerned,
Topeka will continue to spend Sundays
wearing it's lid.
The Topeka Trades and Industrial
council which takes in all of the unions
in the city appointed committee or
five representing as many different un-
ions to draw up resolutions showing
the stand taken by the unions on sun
day closing. The committee consisting
of w. H. Kerle of the carpenters un-
ion, Frank Curry of the cigarmakers'
union. F. P. woodruff, representing the
painters, James Crawford of the typo
graphical union and H. Smith OF the
electrical workers union met To-Day
and drew up a set of resolutions n =;
The committee which will attend the
council committee meeting this even
closing of the grocery stores on Sunday
is right but do not believe that 1t
should extend to the drug stores, con-
fectionery and news stands, cigar
stores meat shops and theaters.
Councilman Montgomery offered last
week to submit a resolution to be sign
ed by the trades council that they were
in favor of aiding fellow employees by
shortening their hours of labor through
the closing of the business conducted
by merchants of Topeka. The council
wanted thus to be more speclnc ana
with this the resolution onered oy
Montgomery was dropped.
Three petitions signed by residents
will be offered. One petition signed by
a larger number of merchants Tor
revision of the present ordinance, an
signed by business men asking for the
continued enforcement OF the present
ordinance and third which Is Delng
circulated in the Second ward winch IL
is stated is for Sunday closing. The
resolution of the Topeka trades council
follows:
To the Mayor and Gentlemen of the
City Council of Topeka, Kan:
Whereas, The city of Topeka is con-
agitated over the Sunday
closing subject. And.
Whereas, 1t is the fundamental
and purpose of the Organic
ed Labor Movement eVeryWnere ~ /
shorten the hours of labor, whenever
possible, consistent with the greatest
good to the greatest number, with due
regard to the convenience and welfare
If the public. And we deem 1t not
necessary for the general welfare ana
of the public to hold
Grocery stores open on sunday
Therefore in the interest of shorter
hours and better conditions of those
who toll from day to day in the stores
that they should be closed one day
out of seven. However, We do not
deem it necessary to go the limit IN
closing all places such as confection-
cry stores, drug stores, cigar stores,
meat shops, news dealers, and tnno-
cent amusement houses, for the reas-
On that the 1aboring man must work
every day or fall in debt, when he
reaches home at night he is too tired
TO go anywhere unless 1t Is to retire
for the night Therefore Sunday is
he only day for him to have recrea-
lion and pleasure and ask the council
10 consider this phase of the man who
has to earn his living by hard work.
Therefore, Be 1T resolved by the In
1ustrial Council of Topeka that we
are in favor of sound and reasonable
measures along these lines and be
L further resolved;
That we believe the city of Topeka
has stood the financial stringency bet
err than most any other city in the