SUNDAY WORK.
Mr Alderman Rogers, speaking of the industrialisation of the modern Sunday, at die Church Congress, said that it was a fact apparent to those who lived in the great centres of industry that the difference between Sunday and week-days was getting thinner and thinner with every year that passed. The difference between Sunday and Bank Holiday was in some districts almost imperceptible. In building contracts nowadays conditions, were inserted providing for Sunday labour. A builder once said to a man, x want you to work on Sundays." "But I have religious scruples," he replied. "Why, the Great Book says that if your ass fall into a pit on Sunday you should take him out," said the master. "Yes," retorted the man; "but if I had an ass which fell into a pit regularly, Sunday after Sunday, I should either sell that ass or fill up the pit."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 4
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149SUNDAY WORK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 4
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