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Roberts' reference to "changing conditions; was interpreted af - possible reference to'his fhange of decision in regardto dwn Jhinimum wage laws for won en. n 1936 Roberts voted with the m- Sority to hold unconstitutional New York law fixing minimum Wages for women. Less than a year. ! later the court sustained a simllar cuit Court of Appeals clted the fact Washington State Iaw by another That four members of the U. S. Sy- 5-to-4 decision, with Roberts preme Court belleved the fayl- Switching his vote to make the ma- alute declslon incorrect in uj- Jority. This decision came in the Iplding the Jehovah Witness fight midst of the bitter Senate con- against the fag salute in webt .troversy over President Roosevelt's Virginia schools. unsuccessful plan to reorganize the May 4, 1943, the Supreme Court Supreme Court by adding slx jus- reversed Its previous stand on the tices, a proposal attacked as a constitutlonality of municipal license taxes on the sale of rell- Supreme Court fght, Roberts was glous literature. This time the frequently referred to as the court's [court upheld the Jehovah Witness! "swing man." sect in a fight against such municl- Cltes Jane 1940 Declsion j pal ordinancees in a 5-to-4 decision, The cltatlons given by Robelts with the scales tipped by the addl- In connection with the modgrn tion of Justice Rutledge, who re. right-about face tendency of men- placed former Justice Byrnes, now bers of the court go back to Julie, War Mobilization director. This 1940, when the majority, in a deci- time Roberts, Frankfurter, Jack- sion written by Frankfurter on a son and Reed were In the minority. Jehcvah Witness case, held that a June 15. 1943, the Suprepe public school requlrement. of a. Court drerruled its 1940 declsipn. salute to the flrg was constitu- on the ftg salute, with Frankfurler .tional. Chief Justice Harlan F. and Roberts consistently dissentjng! Stone was then the lone dissenter. and joined in their opinios byj In June, 1942 the court split, 5 Justice Reed. to 4, In upholding the rlght of three citie: to impose license fees on members of the Jehovah's Witness! sect distributing religious ltera- ture. Black and Douglas joined with Stone in diasenting, and the first three named added. "Since we joined in the oplnlon 1 the Cebitis (flag salute) case, kasion to state that we now Wive it was wrongly decided." In October, 194z, the Fourth Ct