Manford

The appeal is on the judgment-roll and involves the construction of “An act providing for the payment of wages,” approved May 1, 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 1268), and the amendment thereof, approved April 28, 1915 (Stats. 1915, p. 299). The question was carefully considered by this court in Moore v. Indian Spring Channel Gold Min. Co., 37 Cal. App. 370 , [ 174 Pac. 378 ], and the legislation was upheld as within the constitutional authority of the law-making power. Therein many decisions are reviewed, and the reasons justifying such legislation are clearly stated. Our faith in the legal soundness of that decision has not been shaken, and its authority is of controlling force in the instant case.

Appellant, however, contends that a distinction exists between a corporation and a natural person as to the operation of the law, which was not urged or considered in the Moore case, and that while the statute may be and is valid as to the former, it must fail when challenged by an individual as violative of his fundamental rights expressed in section 1, article I, of our state constitution as follows: “All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among…