Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 4 | Child Labor is Made Legal in United States

m Li is I0 LESAL lil UNITEDSTATES Statute Forbidding Interstate Inter-state Shipment of Products Prod-ucts of Little Ones Unconstitutional. FOUR JUDGES DISSENT FROM THE DECISION Moving Picture and Camera Business to Reorganize Under Orders of the Court. "WASHIN"GTOX, June 3. The federal child labor law of 1916, forbidding- interstate inter-state shipment of products of child labor. , was today declared unconstitutional and invalid by the supreme court. Injunctions restraining the government from putting- the statute into effect and restraining- a Charlotte, X. C cotton mill from discharging children employed by it. -were sustained by the court. Tn deciding the case, Justice Day, who rendered the opinion, said: "Over interstate transportation or it incidents, the regulatory power of congress con-gress is ample, but the production of articles ar-ticles intended for interstate commerce j is a matter of local regulation. Reasons Are Given. ' "If it wers otherwise, all material in- tended for interstate shipment would be brought under federal control, to the ' practical exclusion of the authority of J the states, a result certainly not contemplated con-templated by the framers of the consti-xution consti-xution when they vested in congress the ' authority to regulate commerce among I the states." c Justices Holmes, JicKenna, Brandcis and Clarke dissented. Federal court judgments awarding to ! r F. G. Noyes, receiver of the Washington-Alaska Washington-Alaska bank at Fairbanks Alaska, $297.-! $297.-! 000, representing money lost by J. W. Jes- i son and five other former officers and directors of the bank, were in effect h ' sustained by the supreme court, which i declined to review the proceedings. The h court also declined to disturb judgments r-: for $13,000 granted to the receiver against i ' R. C. "Wood, formerly cashier of the institution. in-stitution. The bank failed in 1911. Film Companies to Reorganize. ' i Under an agreement between the de- j partment of justice and the defendants, ihe supreme court today dismissed ap- " peals from federal court decrees enjoin-. enjoin-. ing the so-called moving picture trust from conspiring to monopolize interstate . trade in films and cameras, The or- i conization, it is understood, will reor- i ganize in conform itv with the court or- l ders. i' The supreme court in an opinion today held that dividends paid to stockholders in corporations out of surplus accumu- lated prior to tho income tax law of 1013 r are not income and are therefore not tax- v aide under the act. Federal courts have no jurisdiction over 1: the selective draft boards, the supreme court, in effect, decided today, in denying mandamus proceedings to have an order 1 of a ?ocal board in Milwaukee, AVis., reviewed. re-viewed. i