Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under the St. of 1874, o. 221, to the Police Court of Lowell against a cotton and woollen manufacturing company, for employing an unmarried woman named Mary Shirley, who was over twenty-one years of age, to work in the defendant’s manufacturing establishment in the manufacture of cotton goods for sixty-four hours per week.
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Complaint under the St. of 1874, o. 221, to the Police Court of Lowell against a cotton and woollen manufacturing company, for employing an unmarried woman named Mary Shirley, who was over twenty-one years of age, to work in the defendant’s manufacturing establishment in the manufacture of cotton goods for sixty-four hours per week. The defendant demurred to the complaint upon .the following grounds: “ 1. That the St. of 1874, c. 221, is unconstitutional and void. 2. That the defendant, having been incorporated under a charter prior to the passage of the statute under which the complaint was…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
The defendant contends that the St. of 1874, e. 221, under which the complaint in this case is made, is unconstitutional and void. The provision, which it is alleged is without authority under the Constitution, is, that “ no minor under *384the age of eighteen years, and no woman over that age, shall be employed in laboring by any person, firm or corporation in any manufacturing establishment in this Commonwealth more than ten hours in any one day,” except in certain cases, and that “ in no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty per week.”
The' learned counsel for the d fendant in his argument…
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