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[3/9] Asociacion De Agricultores De Talisay-Silay, Inc., vs. Talisay-Silay Milling Co., Inc.,

[3/9] ASOCIACION DE AGRICULTORES DE TALISAY-SILAY, INC., TRINO MONTINOLA, FERNANDO CUENCA, EDUARDO LEDESMA, EMILIO JISON, NILO LIZARES, NICOLAS JALANDONI and SECRETARY OF LABOR, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. TALISAY-SILAY MILLING CO., INC., and LUZON SURETY CO., IN

G.R. No. L-19937 | 1979-02-19

Part III


Social Justice

But it is not police power alone that sustains the validity of the statutory provision in dispute. Having in view its primary objective to promote the interests of labor, it can never be possible that the State would be bereft of constitutional authority to enact legislations of its kind. Here, in the Philippines, whenever any government measure designed for the advancement of the working class is impugned on constitutional grounds and shadows of doubt are cast over the scope of the State's prerogative in respect thereto, the imperious mandate of the social justice ideal consecrated in our fundamental laws, both...