Show PUT RELIGIOUS DUTY SECOND bern sern laws of business come first says austrian court an interesting case at law which centered on the observance of an old jewish custom was decided in vienna recently A merchant says the ameri amerl can israelite discharged a clerk on ac count of neglect of duty among the charges against him was that he came to the store late in the morning be cause he attended service at a the syna gogue in order to say the prayer tor for the dead dedd tor for his father the clerk argued that it was his lege and his duty to say the prayer for his departed father while the mer chant who was also a religious man maintained that it if moses had known that a man had to pay 8 gulden a year rent be he would have made diff differ er ent laws the judge would not allow suck an argument but decided in fa vor ol 01 the merchant because the dally daily attendance at the synagogue could not be considered the right of the clerk without the consent of the employer |