Show z GOODS Si r. r JOT FACES TEST E WASHINGTON Nov 20 INS Virtual withdrawal of convict la la- la 3 from competition with private d' d t was vas as at st et stake ko ke today a as th the court prepared to hear arl ar ar- ar i rune rente l P Si O on constitutionality of th the law The courts court's Vision may also spell the fate o of S S proposed substitutes for J dA dAA b bed The law Jaw wh which i c h P Provides o. o vi des that conEk con con- 1 Ek made goods cannot be shipped q state tate in violation of a states state's i to a 1 was assailed by the Kentucky i 1 i p n and Collar company which 15 horse collars and strap goods i ty by b prisoners in in the k KentuckY lIan ent ek prison LiUe the company contended cannot nullify the inter inter- d t commerce clause of the cont con con- tate M t II tion by the law the government argued cd congress had the power to tok k enact the law to remedy an ex ex- C Ml t j Misting sting evil nt More than OooO convicts are enc ened en en- c aged ed in m Productive employment In in n some instances prisons manufacture Hur turo ture goods while in others convicts con con- rids work under contract I In appealing to the court to susI sus sus- austain sustain I tai tain the law the American Federation Federa Federa- tion of Labor as a friend of the I COUrt declared More gore than work shirts S 'S manufactured in prisons and were re th t market k 1 t f I in 1932 I in 1 th t market k 1 t f I in 1932 I in 1 I oId in inI the e op open en mar e n n I competition with approximately work vork shirts made by free b labor labor were produced In prisons and sold upon the open market in competition with coo work wok pants made in private factories fac fac- tories for the same year and In addition ad- ad some overalls were produced in prison factories during the saI same period The ie government intervening o to sustain the law on the that sale of made convict-made 1 l is an evil a evil a theory on which the thO court sustained a a law lawI 1 I forbidding shipment of liquor into dry territory Charles Dawson of Louisville counsel for the company said aid jd if congress can ban interstate inter- inter tate state shipment of made convict-made can ban shipment of goods made nade ade by child labor Dawson said that 22 states have prohibited or regulated the sale of made made goods I rhe e department of justice it is known regards the case as one of th the most important p pending in the court rt |