Topeka Laundry Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The actions in the district court were commenced to enjoin enforcement of welfare orders of the court of industrial relations, which fixed minimum wages for adult women employed in laundries and factories. The ground of the actions was that the orders, to the extent stated, and the statute authorizing them, were *13not within the police power of the state, and were violative of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. The district court sustained the orders, and plaintiffs appeal.

In 1915 the legislature passed an act,…