Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-23

take me SO dWlui iOlS III 4 hHtW 1 I get IL done
in an awful hurry and get out of there and only had
so long to do it, but | never figured on any rush
work. My little boy is always around there and |
am around there sometimes three hours-three or
four hours in the evening.
@. Are you supposed to put in so many hours
a day?
A.. Well, / don't know as there has ever been
anything said about any particular hours.
Q. Well, what is your work in the evening?
A. Oh, slice vegetables for orders and make
sandwiches and salads and things like that; mix
my bread for the next morning or peel apples for
my work the next morning.
@. Well, what time are you supposed to come
to work in the morning?
A.. That is just whenever | want to come
There has never been any set time | should have
to be there.
O.. Well, what is the latest you generally get
around in the morning?
A. What do you mean?
@. The latest you generally get around in the
morning?
A. The latest?
@. Yes?
A. Well, in the winter time, of course, when it
isn't busy, sometimes I don't get there until seven
thirty.
@. And what is the earliest you quit in the
afternoon?
A. The earliest / quit?
A. Is about, oh, sometimes / have got through
at one; left there at one o'clock would be about the
earliest.
@. In this complaint we charge on the 18th
day of August, 1927. Do you remember how MANY
hours you worked on that day?
A. No, | couldn't remember any certain day.
q. Well, how many hours
A. There may have been times, of course,
when we were a little busy that-but I couldn't re-
member any certain date.
@. Well, on the average, how many hours do
you work a day?
A. | don't know. Maybe about ten; nine or
ten hours.
Axo 49,, r IL. 81 III n "
law against working more than eight hours a day ?
A.. Well, | never was aware of that fact until
this trouble came up. Of course, | know it now.
O.. That is, that you aren't compelled to work
more than eight hours. You can work if you want
to, but you aren't compelled to.
A.. Well, in fact, | didn't know anything about
that law because my work has been so | can come
and go and do it and get done on time and that is
all that was required.
MR.. ERICKSON. That is all.
CROSS EXAMINATION:
BY MR.. BABCOCK: @. / presume during those
hours that you were at the Elgin Cafe, ! presume
you took certain time off for breakfast in the morn
ing?
A. Yes, sir.
O.. And if you worked during the noon hour,
| presume you ate your dinner there?
A. Yes.
@. And if you should come back before the
dinner hour or supper hour at night, / presume you
took time off to eat something during those times?
A.. Oh, yes.
@. And if your boy you spoke of-How old is
your boy which you referred to?
A.. He is fourteen.
@. And he stoyed around the Elgin during this
time, did he not?
A. Yes.
G. Ate his meals there?
A.. Yes, sir.
O.. And you and your boy visited of course.
| say, you and your boy visited, of course?
A. Oh, yes, sir.
q. You didn't pay any particular attention to
how many hours you worked, did you?
A.. AS a rule / don't.
O.. Did either the defendant here or ANYBODY
else connected with the Elgin Cafe ever ask you to
put in more than eight hours a day?
A. No, there has never been anything said
about any certain hours.
@. Never talked over, you were simply the
pastry cook and came there in the morning and got
the provisions ready that you figured they needed
for the noon hour and supper hour, is that right?
A. Yes, sir.
@. Never kept track of how many hours you
worked?
A.. No, | don't think anybody ever did.
@. And there was never any agreement be-
tween you and anyone else connected with the Ell
gin Cafe you were to work more than eight hours :?
A. No, sir, there has never been any agree
ment.
@. If you did work more than eight hours, it
was simply voluntary on your part?
A. Yes.
@. And not by request of anyone else?
A. Not by the request of anyone else.
@. And if you wanted to let things go kind of
easy like and work a little bit longer some evenings,
instead of digging in and working hard, you figured
you had a right to do 50?
A. Oh yes, / did.