Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-197.1

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The welfare of the State of Oklahoma demands that the working

people of Oklahoma be protected from conditions of labor which have

a pernicious effect on their health or morals. The State of

Oklahoma, therefore, exercising herein its police and sovereign

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 266

power, declares that inadequate wages and insanitary conditions of

labor exert such pernicious effect.

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