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Caltex (Philippines) Inc. Vs. Aurelio Quitoriano 098 Phil 633

CALTEX (PHILIPPINES) INC., STANDARD VACUUM OIL COMPANY, and THE SHELL COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, LTD., petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE AURELIO QUITORIANO, in his capacity as Acting Secretary of Labor, respondent.

G.R. No. L-7152 | 1956-03-21

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J. B. L., J.:

The petitioners, dealers in mineral oils and allied products, have filed this action for prohibition seeking to have the respondent Secretary of Labor restrained by this Court from enforcing his Administrative Order WB-6(a), creating a "Wage Board for the Mineral Oil Industry", for the purpose of "fixing a minimum wage for such industry." Upon their petition we issued a preliminary injunction.

It appears that a report of the Acting Chief of the Wage Administration Service, dated October 3, 1953 (Annex 1, Answer), called the attention of the then acting Secretary of Labor, Aurelio Quitoriano, to the...