Broad v. Woydt

Citations

• 36 Wash. 449
• 70 L.R.A. 1011
• 78 P. 1004
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 575

Syllabus

<p>Labor — Public Works — Eight-Hour Day — Constitutional Daw — Right of Contract. An ordinance prescribing an eight-hour day, and forbidding the employment for longer hours of any laborer upon municipal construction work, making the same a part of all city contracts for such work, and providing'a pen-' alty for any violation thereof hy any city contractor, .is not unconstitutional as in conflict with the fourteenth amendment or any other federal or state constitutional provision, since the same relates only to public works, and the state has á right to do its work in any manner it sees ñt, and no violation of private rights is involved.</p>