Court Opinion

ID: 9644447
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:56:39.979221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:13.649527
License: Public Domain

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
I disagree only as to the employes making ice, some of which is sold in the state of manufacture to railroads and the Fruit Growers Express to be used in icing refrigerator cars and trucks which transport perishable goods to other states. The persons who ice the cars are engaged in interstate transportation, and thus in commerce, but not those making ice. It seems to me to stretch the statute beyond the intent of Congress to say that a manufacturer is producing “goods for commerce”, and is under the Fair Labor Standards Act because transportation agencies, who are transporting other goods in commerce, buy locally some supplies from that manufacturer for consumption by themselves. The principle at issue applies to everything an interstate carrier by rail or truck uses, or even a passenger automobile, or a pedestrian crossing a state line, to facilitate the journey. Coal, water, oil, gasoline, tires, all are consumed on the journey just as this ice is. The food served in a dining car would fall in the same category. There is hardly any end to it. These transportation agencies are not hauling in interstate commerce the ice or oil or gasoline they consume, but are using them to haul other goods, just as they use their rails or other equipment. When Congress spoke of goods produced for commerce it meant the things which are to be commercially transported, and not the things fortuitously used and consumed in transporting them.