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in 1005, while oq WEE &xpo8- Ming the activities of insurance. he Hughes investigation. + Brandeis disclosed that the wage ~ pf big State were under nto carry Industrial life oney. After a hard aight, the Maa- chusetts: Legislature adopted. the [ making possible the of insurance at cost through savings banks. The imme- diate effect was a reductian of pre- tmium rates by 20 per cent. The jaw Le ctill a model tor the rest of the| Nation, and the system he estab- lished flourished even through the depression, he yt Wan Sabway Fight In 1907, the year his savings bank | ce bill’ passed, Brandeis, as ‘volunteer counsel, also conducted @ ‘successful fight to maintain public smership of the city subway sya m. At the same time, he ap ed ore the Supreme Court ig! the | - of a series of cases defertding - tate minimum wage laws for domi; 3 In the firat of these, éoncefuitg oe Oregon law fixing a 10-hour day ; ior women, he presented a 160-page brief only three pages of which “mere devoted to legal precedents. “Theothter 97 described factory con- itions, .- . | : Jn_the same ‘period the public- | ‘gpirited counselor took on the big- est opponent the country could]. ‘offer—the J. P. Morgan interests, which sought to merge, under the | New York, New Haven & Hartford | Railroad, all the rail, trolley and coastal steamship lines east of New | York. The fight lasted until 1912. He warned that the railroad com- i pany’s unsound policies would lead to a crash, They did, some. ycars later. - Loe ‘In 1910, Brandels was drafted as. ‘the arbiter of New York's bitter ‘garment workers strike. He not only effected a peace, but set up an ‘harmonious relationship between employer and employe which still serves as a model President Defended Him It was small wonder that by the time Brandeis’ name was submitted or the Supreme Court vacancy, in 1916, powerful interests were ali d against confirmation, ter four months of bitter argi{- merit the President wrote a staun defense of the liberal, und aided Walsh (Democrat), of Massachusetts, Neviton DBD. Baker and Senator’ er oh ‘Re carried it’ on nn is decisions_yminority de- and Brandeis dissenting" his gift for teaching no the. medium or what é Harvard , n Acheson, ‘Assistant ught alto by his book t se , it is still a flon- ‘Brandeis’ philoso tthe Bandy labels of Eiger ibe. ‘setvative” er “radical.” Fundamen. Buy it was based on an unshatter-. ab ith in democracy,’s system ‘of government much he pointed out : diffe: t to maintata ' He warmed against “not bi, only fea) wiant concentrations of cont’ si, but in equally huge concentra tions of power even in labor unions. Defended Labor's Rights . > A sta : right to ‘orgenles he reat aber's foctr © long before the national labor relations act was dreamed ote Gann nencless pointed out that the tyranny of cap tal tore wra of labor,” and insisted that ere demands be met by dee,