SETBACK TO NEW DEAL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 11

SETBACK TO NEW DEAL

Another Law Declared Unconstitutional SUPREME COURT DECISION By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received May 19, 7.35 p.m.) Washington, May 18. Tlie Supreme Court, by a six to three majority, declared the Guffey Coal Law unconstitutional. Mr. Justice Sutherland, speaking for the majority, held that the Federal Government had no power to regulate hours and wages in tlie mining industry and gave the N.R.A. reversal as a precedent. Depending upon the interests involved, sentiment varied toward the decision. Bituminous mine operators expressed satisfaction at the setback to tlie Government’s effort to regiment the coal industry. Organised labour, on the oilier hand, considered the decision discouraging and expressed the opinion that a sharper struggle in the economic field was the only recour.e left in order to win its demands and recognition for collective bargaining. Tlie Court of Appeals of the district of Columbia decided that the resettlement administration of the 1935 Re'ief Act, whereby the Government under look to redistribute groups of tlie population from uneconomic areas to new districts and to establish them there, is violative of States’ powers.