State of Arizona v. Ash

(Specially Concurring).

I concur in the judgment because one of the grounds upon which it is based, namely, that the work of a prison guard is not manual or mechanical labor within the meaning of the Minimum Wage Law, is sound and necessitates the conclusion reached. It is clear that the work of such employees is not mechanical labor within the purview of this law and the definitions found in the dictionaries and the decisions of the courts of “manual labor” seem to exclude it from that term also.

The second ground assigned for reversal, however, is that the Minimum Wage Law was enacted for the…