Redlands Foothill Groves v. Jacobs

YANKWICH, District Judge.

Back of this controversy is what may readily be conceded to be a radical departure in the realm of American Federal governmental activity,—control of working conditions, hours and wages,—by the Federal Government through the power to control interstate commerce, the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq.

Not that this is alien to our civilization.

The integrated economies of the early settlers of the American continent found it imperative to control economic activity.

So we find that in the earliest American criminal code,—that of Sir Thomas Dale,…