Wilson v. New
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. 'The case is stated in the opinion. The act is constitutional as an hours-of-service law. It is constitutional if purely a wage law. From the beginning, Congress’s power, over interstate commerce has been declared to be supreme.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. 'The case is stated in the opinion. The act is constitutional as an hours-of-service law. It is constitutional if purely a wage law. From the beginning, Congress’s power, over interstate commerce has been declared to be supreme. It consists of “ direct supervision, control, and management” and extends to the regulation of employees while engaged in interstate commerce; also to the regulation of the relations of common carriers and their employees while both, are engaged in interstate commerce. Second…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
Was there power in Congress under the circumstances existing to deal with the hours of work and wages of railroad employees engaged in interstate commerce, is the principal question here to be considered. Its solution as well as that of other questions which also arise will be clarified by a brief statement of the conditions out of which the controversy arose.
Two systems controlled in March, 1916, concerning wages of railroad employees; one, an eight-hour standard of work and wages with additional pay for overtime, governing on about fifteen per cent, of the railroads; the other, a stated…
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