The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
WAGE AND HOUR
INFORMATION

HES imposed OH SIX pledS OIL guilty.
to criminal violations of the Fair La
Dor Standards Act amounted to $751;
500 on May Is, while civil suits to re-
strain violations brought in behalf of
Administrator Elmer F. Andrews, of
the Wage and Hour Division of the
United States Department of Labor on
the same date totaled 19, it was an
nounced today.
Two criminal cases are pending in
actions brought by the United States
Department of Justice in behalf of
the Wage and Hour Division. In the
civil actions, IA injunctions have been
granted and five are pending Thus
the result of court actions to restrain
violations of the wage and hour law
continues to be 10S per cent victorious
for the government, Mr.. Andrews said.
In the criminal cases, Federal judges
before whom the defendants entered
pleas Of guilty collected $11 500 of
the fines and suspended the remaining
$4,000, but in every case made the
suspensions contingent upon the en-
ployers making restitution to the en-
ployes for wages and overtime due.
In criminal actions filed in May, Ad-
ministrator Andrews cited the $4,000
fine imposed in Federal Court at Sa-
vannah, Ga, against Rubin Bros.
Footwear, Inc, a Georgia corporation,
owned by New York Firm, which
maintains factory at Waycross, Ga.
The company employs 500 workers in
the plant and during the peak season
manufacturers 10000 pairs of foot
wear daily. The fve-count indictment
against the Company and Isidore Ru-
bin, executive vice president, charged
violation of both wages and hours pro-
visions of the Act, with Justification of
records to conceal the violations, with
failure to keep adequate records of
wages paid and the hours of employ
ment, and with shipping goods manu-
factured in violation of the law in in
terstate commerce.
In suspending $4,000 of the $4,000
fine, Judge Barrett placed the defend
ants on probation for three years,
making conditions of the probation
full restitution to those of the COM
Ipany's employees who were defrauded
of part of their legal earnings, and
continued compliance with the Act.
Of even greater Importance to
Southern workers was civil suit filed
in behalf of Administrator Andrews
against the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company in which it was alleged
that 4,400 maintenance employees of
the railroad had failed to receive the
minimum wage of 25 cents an hour
provided for in the Act. The railroad
company was charged in the suit with
arbitrarily deducting from the pay en-
velopes of those employees the differ
ence between the pay they have been
receiving and the minimum wage of
25 cents an hour provided for in the
Act. These deductions were charged
to trent" Of company-owned houses,
and the complaint sets forth that many
of these houses were non-eXistent;
that others were not occupied by the
employees against whom the deductions
were made, and that for still others
excessive charges of rent were made.
In a press conference which followed
filing of the suit, Administrator An
drews estimated that the wages due
the AGO employees, plus the 100 per
cent liquidated damages for which
they may sue the employer, would to-
tai 100000.
In the first criminal Indictment re-
turned in the Borough of Manhattan
in New York City, fine of $1,000
was imposed early in May against
Harry Kobrin and his wife, who oper-
ate house furnishings manufacturing
concern in mid Manhattan. Because
payment of the entire fine probably"
would compel the concern to close up
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game.
Tommy was led to understand clear
" that his lovely garden would never
have existed if he had not played a
' fair and square game.