The Kansas Industrial Court Law, famed handiwork of former Governor Henry J. Allen, received a severe blow when the U. S. Supreme Court reversed one of its findings. The Constitutionality of the Kansas law was not directly ruled upon. The ease was one in which the Industrial Court had ruled that Charles Wolff Packing Co., of Topeka, must increase the wages of its employees, although the company was not then operating at a profit.
The opinion of the Supreme Court, delivered by Chief Justice Taft, was apparently aimed as much at the...
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