Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...layman seems to believe that if there is enough law on the side of this Minimum Wage Law for Mr. Taft, there is enough...
...Supreme Court do not think so, let there be an amendment which will satisfy their legal scruples. The Supreme Court has already upheld social legislation based on the police power. Laws regulating hours of labor, housing conditions, etc., are all based on the police power. The Minimum Wage Law would have been tolerated on the same grounds, if Mr. Taft...
...Supreme Court's decision in the District of Columbia Minimum Wage case has given the country the first definite indications of the way in which the new court may be divided in cases involving economic and social questions. The conservatives, who considered the statute unconstitutional, were Justices McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler. Those dissenting were Chief Justice Taft and Justices Holmes and Sanford. Mr. Justice Brandeis did not participate in the case because he had argued a similar case before the court ten years ago. He would doubtless have been aligned with the dissenting minority. While...
...reaction of women's organizations throughout the country to the decision of the Supreme Court which invalidates the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law for Women was immediate and violent. A chorus of protest went up from women leaders in many organizations: the National Women's Trade Union League, the National Congress of Mothers, the National League of Women Voters, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Women's Bureau in the Department of Labor...
Justices Taft, Holmes and Sanford in honorable dissent from the minimum wage decision...