...calendar day shall be paid on the basis of eight hours constituting a day's work : provided further, that not less than the current rate of per diem wages...performed shall be paid to laborers, workmen, mechanics, and other persons so employed by or on behalf of the state of Kansas, or any county, city, township,...

...269 US 385, 391 (1926) (Oklahoma statute prohibiting state contractors from paying their employees less than the "current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed" held void for vagueness). 132. DC CODE § 22-2801 (1973). See also Questionnaire, supra note 125, Response...

...Court declared unconstitutional a statute which required government contractors to pay their employees "not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed." The meaning of the statute was unclear, obscure, and 'incapable of any definite answer;" the statute...

...state construction projects.3 Indeed, as early as 1891, the state of Kansas had adopted a law requiring that "not less than the current rate of per diem wages...where the work is performed shall be paid to laborers, workman, mechanics, and other persons so employed by or on behalf of the State of Kansas.* Thus, in...

...prevailing wage legislation. Indeed, as early as 1891, the state of Kansas had adopted a law requiring that "not less than the current rate of per diem wages...performed shall be paid to laborers, workmen, mechanics, and other persons so employed by or on behalf of the State of Kansas." Thus, in 1927, Rep. Bacon did...

...prevailing wage section was put back in, the bill became law. This first prevailing wage law stated. That not less than the current rate of per diem wages...performed shall be paid to laborers, workmen, mechanics and other persons so employed by or on behalf of the state of Kansas. ... ' At first, however, the...

...wage section was put back in, the bill became law. This first prevailing wage law stated, That not leu than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed thall be paid to laboren, workmen, mechanics and other person! to employed by or on behalf of the Mate...

...legislature might also prescribe minimum rates of compensation. The eight-hour law upheld in Atkin provided that "not less than the current rate of per...locality where the work is performed shall be paid" to workers employed by or on behalf of the state of Kansas. Moreover, any worker legally working overtime...

...might have had many valid applications. The law made it unlawful for a contractor to pay his employees "less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed." The statute might have been vague in some situations, but as one commentator has noted, "if the contractor...

...Connolly v. General Construction Co., 269 US 385 (1926) (An Oklahoma statute prohibiting paying workers less than "the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed" was invalidated because of its vagueness.); Stromberg v. California, 283 US 359 (1931), see supra note...