Wagner v. City of Milwaukee

The following opinion was filed April 3, 1923:

Eschweiler, J.

It is alleged in the complaint that the scale of minimum wage as fixed by such ordinance is the same as that fixed and maintained by the respective -labor unions in the city; that in many of the designated crafts, by reason o'f the rules- of the labor unions, many workmen are designated as skilled laborers and therefore entitled to a higher rate of pay to accord with such designation, whereas in fact the work they are required to perform is but ordinary or common labor, and that by reason of the foregoing much of the public work done…