...state of Oklahoma, which required that persons employed by or on behalf of the state should be paid "not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed." For a violation of this law a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $500 was to be imposed, or...

...and the courts upon another." risk of incurring severe and cumulative penalties, to pay his employees "not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed." We are of opinion that this provision presents a double uncertainty, fatal to its validity as a criminal...

...Forchheimer v. La Blond, supra, the coux\ «вдюишеЛ Wt 1025. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. lesa than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed," U во uncertain as to deprive contractors of their property without due process of law. [No. 314.]...

...ed. 622. Under State Criminal Law. — For many years the laws of a number of states have required that "not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality" should be paid to persons employed by or on behalf of the state or any one of its political subdivisions....

...state may fix the wages of workmen in its own employment, but a provision that such wages shall be "not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality" is so uncertain as to be violative of the due process of law clause in the Constitution. Connally v....

...highway labor) . These States may be divided into classes; first those having a provision to the effect that not less than the current rate of per diem wages...locality where the work is performed shall be paid to workmen; second, those States which fix a minimum wage. One jurisdiction has both provisions. States...

...statute of Oklahoma which imposed penalties upon contractors with the State who paid their workmen less than " the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed " was held void for uncertainty. The Capital Traction case was approved, the court saying further :...

...Construction Company, 269 US 385, 391, the validity of a statute of Oklahoma providing that not more than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work was performed should be paid to laborers, workmen, mechanics, prison guards, janitors in public institutions...

...holding that the requirement that a contractor pay his employees " not less than the current rates of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed," was so indefinite and uncertain as to make the statute unconstitutional and Void. A like rule applies...

...holding that the requirement that a contractor pay his employees " not less than the current rates of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed," was so indefinite and uncertain as to make the statute unconstitutional and void. A like rule applies...