Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-05 | Page 11 | State Supreme Court Grants Restrainer on Wage Minimum

STATE SUPREME COURT GRANTS I RESTRAINER ON WAGE MINIMUM fRET RETAIL All FIRMS WIN ROUND IN 16 PAY FIGHT Petitioners Say Act Discriminatory tory in Suit On petition of more than of the states state's largest retail firms the state supreme court Wednesday granted an alternative writ of prohibition prohibition pro- pro returnable January 26 re restraining restraining restraining re- re straining the state industrial commission commission commission com com- mission from enforcing its act that set 16 as the weekly minimum wage of women and children employed employed employed em em- in the retail industry Meanwhile the labor relations board was in session in an attempt to fix wages for women and children children children chil chil- dren employed in the restaurant industry The petition of the retail store operators charged that the order of the he industrial commission for a 16 weekly wage minimum was not constitutional constitutional constitutional con con- and that the board acted in in excess of its powers in attempting attempt attempt- ing to set a standard uniform wage for an industry in which conditions vary widely The retailers argued through their petition that many hundreds would be thrown out of work if they are compelled to pay ever every woman and minor clerk 16 weekly The 16 weekly minimum wage order the petition complained is capricious and discriminatory William M M. Knerr chairman of ol the state industrial commission said he did not believe a special wage-fixing wage board for women and children in the restaurant industry can complete its work before the end of the month Originally it was expected that the recommendations would be adopted at the first meeting of the labor board The board is composed on the employers' employers side of C. C W. W West H H. Tracy Fowler a and d Frederick Warner Warner Warner War War- ner and on the side oJ of Thomas Mrs R R. B B. Peck and R. R H. H Fuller