Show MINE MINE- WORKERS MINE WORKERS WORKERS' LAW IS HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL Tax on Store Storo Orders u Is Issued d by Operators Operators Operators Ope Ope- Declared Invalid HARRISBURG Pi P Dec 10 The TM The Dauphin Dauphin Dau Dau- phin Count County court yesterday decided in an opinion written hy by Judge Simonton that th the store order law enacted b by the thelast thelast thelast last Legislature is hi unconstitutional In a n. number of oC ca cases etl tried and decided tho the court found that the companies companio a against whom the tax had been charged did not Issue all Oll any store orders older of the kind upon u which the act Imposed d u tax lax of ot 23 5 per her cent on their face value valid In tho the cn case o of or the Lehigh Coal and antI Navigation company tho the court squarely holds n act att t tto to be unconstitutional Simonton says says- Tho taxation Imposed on defendant by hY said act and charged n against It In Ral said i settlement was liS intended l to antI ami If IC the ilie act were sustained would ouid Inflict a pen oen- on defendant for doing doln that on which hichi It has a n le legal and constitutional right to todo todo todo do and tho thin act therefore is Ls invalid and unconstitutional L This act was wan one of ot the measures advocated ado o by the United Mine |