CHAP. 6.—MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN IN UNITED STATES 43

Some employers now refuse to take in females under the age of 18 hecause
of the minimum wage law. In so far as the males are concerned the law
has had this effect that it has resulted in the employment of older boys, since
v0ys 15 years of age must be paid as much as boys 17 years of age.
In Texas no law is applied at present, but Mr. Charles McKemy,
ommissioner of labor, writes in his letter of March 22, 1928, that “ it
is contemplated to present to the next session of the State legislature
a proposition looking to the enactment of a minimum wage law.”
In Arizona also there is no law at present. Mr. J. C. Sanders. the
‘ndustrial agent, under date of March 16, 1928, writes:
A number of the larger employers of women are not opposed to a minimum
¥age law, and probably would support it if properly drafted.
As to the District of Columbia law many legal arguments have been
brought forward against the validity of the reasoning of the Supreme
Court.’ Constructive proposals for the drafting of a measure to
avoid the constitutional difficulties have also been elaborated.'* No
oositive action, however, has been taken to date.
The present status and the character of the minimum wage laws
which have not been repealed or have not been declared unconstitutional
 by the courts are summarized in the following chart:

1 New Republic, New York, November, 1925, p. 271.
Q Letter from Prof. Felix Fraukfurter, of Harvard University, dated Mar, 19, 1928,
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