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One of the most momentous deci
sions as affecting labor ever render
ed by the United States supreme
court was that passed down in the
noted Adamson eight-hour law, which
was held to be constitutional. Chief
Justice White and Justices McKenna,
Holmes, Rrandeis and Clark, consti
tuting a majority, favored the deci
sion, while Justices McReynolds, Day,
Pitney and Van Devanter dissented.
Chief Justice White, who rendered
the decision, summed up the case by
saying:
“We say that the contention that
the act was void and could not be
made operative because of the un
workability of its provisions is with
out merit, since we see no reason to
doubt that if the standard fixed by
the act were made applicable and a
candid effort followed to carry it out,
the result would be without difficul
ty accomplished. It is true that it
might follow that in come cases that
because of particular terms of em
ployment or exceptional surroundings,
some change might be necessary, but
these exceptions afford no ground for
holding the act void because its pro
visions are not susceptible in practice
of being carried out.
“Being of the opinion that congress
had the power to adopt the act in
question, whether it be viewed as a
direct fixing of wages to meet the
absence of a standard on that, sub
ject resulting from the dispute be
tween the parties or as the exertion of
power by congress which it undoubt
edly possessed to provide by appro
priate legislation for compulsory ar
bitration—a power which inevitably
resulted from its authority to pro
tect interstate commerce in dealing
with a situation like that which was
before it—we conclude that the' court
below erred in holding the statute
was not within the power of congress
to enact, and in restraining its en
forcement and its decree therefore
must be and it is reversed, and the
cause remanded with directions to
dismiss the bill and it is so ordered.”
Justice White did not follow his
manuscript closely.
“All the propositions,” he ruled,
“relied upon and the arguments ad
vanced ultimately come to two ques
tions:
‘ First, the entire want of consti
tutional power to deal with the sub
jects embraced by the statute, and
second such abuse of the power if
possessed as rendered its exercise
unconstitutional. We will consider
these subjects under distinct proposi
tions separately.
“First, is the entire want of consti
tutional power to deal with the sub
jects embraced by the statute ?
“There must be knowledge of the
power exerted before determining
whether as exercised it was constitu
tional nad we must hence settle the
dispute on that question before going
further. Only an eight-hour standard
for work and wages is provided, is the
contention on the one side, and in sub
stance only a scale of wages was pro
vided, is the argument on the other.
We are of the opinion that both are
right and in a sense both wrong, in
so far as it is assumed that the one
excludes the other. The provision of
section one that ‘eight hours shall be
deemed a day’s work and the meas
ure or standard of a day’s work,’
leaves no doubt about the first propo
sition. As to the second, this is
equally true because of the provision
of section three forbidding any lower
ing of wages as a result of applying
the eight-hour standard established by
section one during the limited period
prescribed in section two. Both pro
visions are equally mandatory.
“Concretely stated, therefore, the
question is this: Did congress have
power under the circumstances stated,
that is, in dea'ing with the dispute
between the employers and the em
ployes as to wages, to provide a per
manent eight-hour standard and to
create by legislative action a standard
I of wages to be operative upon the
j employers and employes for such rea
■ sonable time as it deemed necessary
to afford an opportunity for the meet
ing of the minds of employers and
empoyes on the subject of wages.
“Or in other words, did it have the
power, in order to prevent the inter
ruption of interstate commerce, to ex
ert its will to supply the absence of a
wage scale resulting from the dis
agrement as to wages between the
employers and employes and to make
its will on that subject controlling
for the limited period provided for?
“Coming to the general considera
tion by which both subjects must be
'controlled, to simplify the analysis for
the purpose of considering the ques
tion of inherent power, we put the
question as to the eight-hour stand
ard entirely out of view on the ground
that the authority to permanently es
tablish it is so clearly sustained as
to render the subject not disputable.
“What was the extent of the pow
er, therefore, of congress to regulate,
considering the scope of regulation
which government had the right to
exert with reference to interstate com
merce carriers, when it came to exer
cise its legislative authority to regu
late commerce, is the matter to be de- j
cided.
“That the business of common car
riers by rail is in a sense a public
business because of the interest of so
ciety in the continued operation and
rightful conduct of such business and
that the public interest begets a pub
lic right of regulation to the full ex
tent necessary to secure and protect
it, is settled by so many decisions,
state and federal, and is illustrated by
such continuous exertion of state and
fedral legislative power, as to leave
no room for question on the subject.
“It is also equally true that the1
right to fix by agreement between
the carrier and its employes a stand
ard of wages to control their relations
is primarily private, the establish
ment and giving effect to such agreed
on standard is not subject to be con
trolled or prevented by public author
ity. But taking all these propositions
as undoubted if the situation which
we have described and with which the
act of congress dealt be taken into
view, that is the dispute between the
employers and employes as to a stand
ard of wages, their failure to agree,
the resulting absence of such stand
ard, the entire interruption of inter
state commerce which was threatened,
and the infinite injury to the public
interest which was imminent, it would
seem inevitably to result that the
power to regulate necessarily obtain
ed and was subject to be applied to
the -•'xtent necessary to provide a
remedy for the situation, which in
cluded the power to deal with the dis- j
pute, to provide by appropriate ac
tion for a standard of wages to fill the
want of one caused by the failure to
exert the private right on the subject
and to give effect by appropriate leg
islation to the regulations thus
adopted.
INVENTION TO FOIE
SUBMARINE ATTACKS j
A patent has been granted on a
torpedo guard which the inventor, T.
M. Daniels of Chicago, claims will
protect the vessel equipped with it
from submarine attack.
The guard consists of interlocked
steel plates suspended over the sides
and stern of the vessel, completely
surrounding it, held out by booms to
any desired distance and dropped to
any required depth.
This guard is said to be particu
larly Valuable at night, when it is
practically impossible to detect the
presence of a submarine by sighting
its periscope.
Mr. Daniels states that his device
can be attached to any vessel at sea
while the vessel is under way and that
this precaution need need only be tak
en when approaching the danger zone
or as an additional safeguard at
night.
While other attempts have been
made to devise torpedo guards it is
understood that none are practical
except while the vessel is lying at
anchor. Daniels’ device is said to
net materially retard the ship’s prog
ress.
The object of this guard is to ex
plode the torpedo at a predetermined
distance from the side of the vessel,
the intervening water cushion nulli
fying the effects of the explosion.
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such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
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shipments are sent POSTAGE
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previous to the advance in prices we
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which means a saving to you of 25 per
cent. Our line is new and complete.
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