CHAMBERS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1038.

89 A.2d 636 (1952)

CHAMBERS et al. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided June 12, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry E. Taylor, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Leonard A. Block, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellants.

Edward A. Beard, Assistant Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C. (Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, and Chester H. Gray, Principal Assistant Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellants were convicted of eighteen separate violations of wage Order No. 7 of the Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board. This appeal challenges the validity of that wage order.1

The minimum wage law2 established the Minimum Wage Board3 and authorized it "to investigate and ascertain the wages of women and minors in the different occupations in...

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