ABSTRACT
Oregon has a law which says that no person shall be hired or permitted to work for wages, under any conditions or terms, for longer hours or days of service than is consistent with his health and physical wellbeing and ability to promote the general welfare by his increasing usefulness as a healthy and intelligent citizen. It is the first time that the court has had to deal with the working hours of men since the Lochner case in 1905, when a ten-hour law applying to bakers in New York was annulled. The court reasoned then that it had not been convinced that baking is a "dangerous occupation". In this so-called Bunting case which comes from Oregon, the attempt will be made to secure a decision extending the right to limit men's hours in all trades.
