Note and Comment

Ten-Hour Labor Laws - The United States Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to pass on the questions involved in that thorn. in the flesh of social reformers-the Bakeshop Case-if, as is probable, a case recently decided by the Mississippi Supreme Court is carried higher. Last year Mississippi enacted a sweeping ten-hour law making it unlawful for persons, firms or corporations engaged, in manufacturing or repairing "to work their employees more than ten hours per day except in cases of emergency or -where public necessity requires." Defendant, engaged in the manufacture of lumber and in the repair of its machinery used in and about - its plant and railroad, was indicted for working the men in its employ more than ten- hours a day. The law was sustained on demurrer as constitutional. State v. J. J. Newman Lumber Co. (Miss.

1912) 59 South. 923.