Evening star., 1936-10-12
Decision on Review of Wag-
ner Act Due Next Week.
Appeal of Virginian Rail
Firm Is Granted.
PRISON.M MADE GOODS
REVIEW TO BE HEARD
Justices Also Will Pass on Con-
tention of Government That
1884 Arms Embargo Act, Au.
thorizing Presidential NUM-
tions Control, Is Constitutional.

Beginning the actual work Of a
term that will bring up nearly a dozen
important New Deal measures for
Constitutional review, the Supreme
Court today announced its consent or
refusal to review some 200 cases that
had been submitted during the Sum-
t11er recess
The justices took no conclusive ac-
ton in the important labor relations
dispute. but refused to review a pro-
cedural question raised by the Brad
ley Lumber Co. of Warren, Ark. The
constitutionality of the so-called
Wagner act, governing labor relations,
has been attacked by the Associated
Press, however, and the court is ex-
pected to announce next Monday
whether it will hear this case.
Virginian Rail Appeal.
Among applications for review that
the court granted we're:
An. appeal by the Virginian Rail:
way Co. in its suit attacking COL
lective bargaining provisions of the
railway labor act.
A lower court ruling upholding the
validity of the 1885 Ashhurst-Sum-
ners act forbidding the transportation
Of prison-made goods into States that
prohibit their sale and requiring that
such products be labeled as convict
goods.
The contention of the Government
that the 1884 arms embargo act. au-
thorizing the President to forbid the
sale Of munitions for use in the Chaco
war. was constitutional.
The right of the p. W. A. to make
grants and loans to municipalities to
construct public power plants in COM
petition with established private con-
Germs. -
The New Deals contention that q
30 per cent tax on silver profits made
prior to enactment Of the silver
purchase act was legal.
In addition to the Bradley case. the
court refused to review the following:
Minimum Wage Law.
It's decision last June declaring un-
constitutional a New York law fixing
minimum wages for women.
A Florida Supreme Court decision
invalidating sections of a State law
imposing a graduated gross receipts
tax on chain stores.
A ruling last May nullifying the
1884 municipal bankruptcy act in
tended to aid cities, counties and
other political subdivisions to reduce
their Indebtedness through Federal
bankruptcy court proceedings.
A ruling of the Western Missouri
Federal District Court upholding con-
stitutionality of the Frazier-Lemke act
which granted a three-year mora
torium on farm mortgage foreclosures
An application for habeas corpus
writ by Norman T. Whitaker, con-
victed with CASTOR Means as "the
Fox in the Lindbergh baby ransom
negotiations with Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean.
An unsuccessful suit by Mrs. Lillian
n. Rhodes, Internal Revenue Bureau
employe, attacking the so-called mar
ried woman's clause of the economy
act.
An appeal by William Owens, who
was convicted in District court of kill
ing his 14-year r-old sweetheart in
houseboat on the Potomac River.
To Review Wage Case.
Although refusing to review Its
earlier ruling in the New York case,
the court agreed to pass on a similar
case attacking the constitutionality Of
the Washington State law establish
ing minimum wages for women.
It consented to review a decision by
the Washington Supreme Court up
holding the law, enacted in 1913,
which required wages sufficient to
supply women with the necessary
cost Of living" and to maintain them
In health.
The Chelan County. Washington,
Superior Court had ruled the act was
unconstitutional because it took prop
erty without due process of law.
The New York act was held invalid
In q hve-to-four opinion on the ground
1t violated the freedom of contract.
The high court also agreed to review
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