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Show HEW YORK'S LABOR LAW 1 KNOCKED OUT BY COURT I 9t Judge Declares Effort to Restrict Hours of Labor of Women and Chll- m dren Is Unconstitutional. JH New York. T-ho stnto law of Now ft York restricting the labor ot women W nnd children .to ten hours a day and sixty hours a week In a factory was declnred on Friday by Justice Olms tod In a decision handed down In tho court ot special sosslons to bo an unwarranted unwarrant-ed Invasion of constitutional rlghtsy The rutlng was concurred In by Justices Jus-tices McKoan nnd Deuel. Judgo Olmsted Olm-sted declared that tho law was class legislation. Justice Olmsted said In his dectslonr "To labor and -employ labor nro In- f horont nnd Innllcnnhlo rights of our I citizens and ennnot be tnken away In I whole or In part v unless upon the broad ground of public good, which must be nppnront nnd ennnot bo predicted pre-dicted uion leglslatlvo dictum." Attorney General Mnyer announced that he would nppoal from the decision de-cision of the court. "I will carry the case, If need bo," he laid, "to tho supremo cofcrt of the , , United Stntcs, so long ns tho quostlon ot tho constlutlonnllty ot tho statute 5 as been raised." |