Struggling with the Depression – unemployment compensation: State v. Iden – Ohio, 1942 (47 N.E.2d 907)
Struggling with the Depression – fair competition codes: Joseph Triner Corp. v. McNeil – Illinois, 1936 (2 N.E.2d 929); Duncan v. City of Des Moines – Iowa, 1936 (268 N.W. 547); State ex rel. Attorney General v. Fasekas – Wisconsin, 1937 (269 N.W. 700)
“The only cases in which the fixing of wages or prices has been allowed by the Supreme Court of the United States have been in connection with ‘businesses impressed with a public interest.’ … If these trades [barbering and painting] are so impressed, there is no trade or business that is not so impressed and the constitutional bar imposed [by the U.S. Supreme Court] is entirely removed.”-Justice Chester Fowler (dissenting), in Fasekas TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERIOD, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW. YOU CAN ALSO USE THE "SITEMAP" TAB AND THE LINKS ABOVE TO GO TO:
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Breadline in Chicago, 1931 (courtesy National Archives and Wikimedia Commons) “Contracts of employment are not impaired, but are
recognized. The state merely says that,
as a privilege of doing business, one, as an employer of labor, must contribute
towards the hazard of injury or unemployment of all who are in employment, and
thereby promote the general welfare.” - Judge Clyde Sherick, in Iden
“[Trade code laws] were brought about because of the
failure of the public, and particularly the business public, to observe those
ethical principles which lie at the very foundation of fair dealing and
business honesty.” - Justice Francis
Wilson, in Triner |
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