The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-02
Labor Forces Giuen
 Another Body Blo1u
Continued from Page l)

new high point. Whether the fight for a constitutions lamendment would be carried into the coming political campaign remained uncer- tain. President Roosevelt has given no direct indication he will raise the issue.
 Invitation to Change
 The minority opinion, written by Justice Harlan Stone, was regarded as of especial significance. Some saw in 1t an implied invitation for a constitutional amendment defining congress- power over industry. Stone intimated that the majority decis- ion, written by Justice Pierce Butler, was based upon personal economic predilections." Joining with Stone were Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Justice Benjamin Cardoza and Justice Louis Brandies. Seone, in his sharply worded opinion, said: "The 14th amendmena has no more embedded in the constitution our preference for some particular set of economic beliefs than 1t has adopted, in the name of liberty, the system of theology which we may happen to approve"
 Justice Hughes With tSate
 Hughes, in a separate opinion con- cured in by the other dissenters, said: T can find nothing in the federal constitution which denies to the state the power to protect wo- men from being exploded by over- reaching employers through the re- fusal of a fair wage as defined in the New York statute and ascertained in a reasonable manner by competent authority" Approximately the same lineup as prevailed in 1923, when the court outlawed federal legislation governing wages of women in the District of Columbia, held a New York law attempting the same end likewise invalid.
 No Liberal Court
 The decision seemed to contro- vert any claims that the court as at present constituted is more liberal than that which held office more than a decade ago. It also served in the minds of observers to line young Justice owen J. Roberts up defi- nitely with the conservative group on the court.
 It was the first time that Roberts split with his chief justice over the validity of a major state law. Roberts joined with Hughes to control the court and uphold chain store tax moratorium and the Newttaoipp legislation, the Minnesota mortgage moratorium and the New York milk law. Roberts alignment with the conservative members, Justices Butler, George Sutherland, James c. McReynolds and Willis Vande- vanter was regarded as indicating little chance that the Wagner Labor Disputes Act would be sustained.
 Labor Forces May Write
 Whether the administration will sponsor a movement to make the court or a constitutional amend men a political issue remained url- certain. But 1t was pointed out that the New York wage decision might serve to align large forces back of such a movement.
 The New York case was regarded as politically important because of the seven states with similar laws joined in the New York case appeal asserting their state laws will be governed by the courts decision in the New York case.
 These seven states include some of the largest and most popuious of the country with huge industrial voting areas. They are Ohio, Con- necticut, Illionis, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
 The decision closed the present session of the court. The justices put away their robes for a four months vacation. The last two ses- sions of the court make the past l0 months perhaps the most important in the courts history.
 Connecticut Law Affected
 Hartford. Conn. June 2 - (UP)-- The State Labor Department today hoped to keep it's minimum wage law, embodylng the aalne principles as the OutlaWed New York statute