Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1898 — EIGHT-HOUR LAW IS UPHELD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EIGHT-HOUR LAW IS UPHELD.

Important Supreme Court Decision on a Case Appealed from Utah. In the Supreme Court at Washington nu opinioit was handed down in the case of E. F. Holden vs. the sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah, upholding the constitutionality of the territorial law fixing a day’s work in smelters and mines iu the territory at eight hours. Mr. Holden was arrested for violating the law and was sentenced to imprisonment. He brought the case to the Supreme Court in an effort to secure a writ of error on the ground that the law was unconstitutional in that it was calculated to deprive a citizen of life or property without due process of law. The court held that such was not the case, but that the law was an exercise of the State’s police powers. Justice Brown said in passing upon the case that it was not the intention of the court to pass generally upon the constitutionality of eight-hour laws, but that in so far as State laws were exerted for the protection of the lives, the health or the morals of a community there could be no doubt of their propriety or of their constitutionality. There could lie no doubt

of the exceptional and unhealthful chasacter of work in smelters or mines, because of bad air, high temperature and noxious gases, and hence the wisdom of the State legislation. The decision, of the Supreme Court of Utah was affirmed

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