Show POLICE POWERS ARE UPHELD BY COURT in n which the hours of work in laundries are limited washington feb 24 that laundries and other concerns employing females in mechanical labor in oregon may not require female employed emp loyes to work more than ten hours a day in compliance with the law enacted by the legislature of that state in 1903 was proclaimed today by the supreme m 0 court of the united states in the ca case se of fit curt muller a laundryman doing business in portland versus the state of oregon muller attacked the law as unconstitutional claiming that it puta a limitation on the power ot 0 contract the oregon supreme court upheld the statute on grounds gronna s that it is a police regulation and its decision was affirmed by the federal supreme court in its ruling today the opinion was by justice brewer |