Campbell v. City of New York

This action was brought by the plaintiff, employed as a painter in the department of plant and structures of the city of New York, to recover the difference between the wages actually paid at the rate of seven dollars to nine dollars per day and the rate alleged to be prevailing of ten dollars per day at one period and ten dollars and fifty cents at another. Subdivision 3 of section *383220 of the Labor Law of 1921 requires the city to pay the prevailing rate of wages in the locality for an eight-hour day, and it is urged that this requirement was violated by the department aforenamed. The…