Proposition Summary

Initiative act prohibiting, except in cases of urgent emergency, the working for wages, or requiring or employing any person to work, more than six days or forty-eight hours a week, the keeping open or operating certain places of business or selling property on Sunday: declares Sunday provisions of act inapplicable to works of necessity, or to member of religious society which observes another day as day of worship and who on such day keeps his place of business closed and does not work for gain; declares violation of act misdemeanor and prescribes penalties.

Proposition Number

42

Year

1914

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 290679; A: 38.8; N: 457890; B: 61.2

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

William Kehoe, State Senator First District

Against Author

W. Mayhew Healey

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