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Show CHILD LABOR LAW HELD INVALID I IN DECISION OF SUPREME COURT I WASHINGTON, May 15. The child labor law waa todpy HoDi by Ihe sti Ipreme court to be unconstitutional and i not valid. The decision of tho court was ren dered in a case brought by the gov I ernment against the Drezel Furniture company of North Carolina and was one of three cases brought In that slate testing the validity oi ihe law, : and in all of which the United States district court decided against the guv-1 guv-1 ernment The law held unconstitutional today by the court was enacted after Uie Btt- 1, pn me court had declared invalid a rt ol congress which excuded from ! Interstate commerce products it r, whose manufacture child labor ha.1 been used. The labor law affected b today'! decision was virtually tbt u same sxi pi thai it imposed an excise ; tax Ol 10 f COnl upon the annual net li profi'a Of eabllshments employlny I child labor Opponents of the law con r tended the uew law was an uncon !, I slitutional Invasion of the police po ( ers of the slates. 1 |