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Show MERCHANTS ARE . f SNED SN GOSJKT Cohen and Benowitz Plead Guilty to Keeping Their Stores Open on Sunday and Are Assessed $20 They Will Demand Uniform Enforcement of the Sunday Law. In the police court this morning, , David Rosenthal, R. Cohen, William Henowltz and IJ. Wolf wore arraigned on the charge of keeping their places of business open Sunday, June .rth. ' th complaints all being signed by Walter F. Compton. president of the Retail Clerks' association of tho city. Cohen and Benowitz pleaded guilty to the charge and were each sentenced j to pay a fine of $20. Rosenthal and j Wolf pleaded not guilty and their case will be set for trial at some future time. Other complaints were filed, charg ing the same offense against S. Kertu, Joseph Benowitz and Harry Albert, the two latter now answering their name?, and the former being repre sented by a friend, who stated that he was in New York. These cases were continued for future consideration. Mr. Rosenthal and Mr. Wolf were released re-leased on their own recognizance. The parties named in the complaints com-plaints are clothing merchants on Twenty-fifth street, and in tho recent action on the part of the retail clerks of the city for the 7 o clock Saturday night closing hour, they have refused to agree to the proposition. It is said that the clerks are determined to force them to the rule, or prohil.it them from keeping their stores open on Sunday, which Is against the law. The stores of lower Twenty fifth street have been In the habit of keeping their places open on Sunday for a long period of time, and the proprietors proprie-tors of tbe places say thev feel that it is a little late to begin the enforcement enforce-ment of the low In this respeet. It Is said by some of those concerned that if the law g going to be enforced against the clothing stoics In regard to the Sunday closing law, that all other stores, such as cigar stands, ico cream parlors and candy stores, shall come under the ban. |