Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1938 — Page 4
AGE 4
~ Sitdowners Lose; Wage Law Rules on Overtime Studied
THE LABOR SITUATION
ILLINOIS COURT upholds
strikers’ convictions.
EMPLOYERS seek advice on Wage Law provisions.
. (Editorial, Page 12)
By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.— The problem of overtime pay is engaging the interests of many employers as the effective date of the Wage-Hour Act—next Monday— draws near. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has had many inquiries on this aspect of the law. So have the offices of various trade associations. The act provides in general that employees covered by the act may work longer than 44 hours a week only if paid time and a half for the overtime hours. (Partial exemptions are provided for seasonal industries covered by union agreements.) Henry F .Fowler, head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Department of Manufacturers, said a number of employers who are paying their men well above the 25-cents-an-hour minimum stipulated by the act, but working them wore than 44 hours a week, had sought the chamber’s advice. Advice Difficult Some of them, he said, have raised a question which can be illustrated this way: A manufacturer pays $35 a week to men who are working 54 hours a week. He finds it necessary to continue the 54-hour schedule. But under the act he must pay time and a half for 10 of those hours. His currently hourly rate comes to a fraction under 65 cents a hour. Applying the statutory time-and-a-half rate to the 10 overtime hours would add $3.25 a week to each paycheck. The employer fears this added cost would put him at a disadvantage if his competitors avoided such an increase. Can the employer get around this provision by cutting his hourly rate
! to.such a point that the weekly
wage, including overtime, would be the same as at present? The Chamber of Commerce is not advising its members what to do in such situations. It cnly calls their attention to the act, which states: “No provision of this act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this act, or justify any employer in increasing hours of employment maintained by him which are shorter than the maximum hours applicable under this act.”
Act Effective Monday Mr. Fowler sa:@ some employers, apparently recalling the NRA codes, had the impression that they would not be affected by the Wage-Hour Act until Administrator Elmer F.
Andrews appointed industry committees covering their fields. Accordingly. the chamber has warned its members! “Such an impression has no basis in fact . .. the wage-and-hour provisions automatically apply on Oct. 24 to all employees covered by the law who are not subject to specific exemption.” : Mr. Fowler, who is receiving an increasing number of inquiries by letter and telephone from employers, an intention to abide by the low said there was “every indication of an intention to abide by the law if they can find out what it means and how it applies to them.” Foremen’s Status Problem
Two questions predominate in the; inquiries which have come to him, he said. One is the meaning of “interstate commerce.” Another is the question of what constitutes an administrative or executive employee. The wage-hour division will issue an interpretive bulletin on this subject shortly. Philip P. Gott, head of the chamber’s trade-association department, said inquiries reaching him from members had been concerned chieffy with the problems of seasonal industries, “executives,” and handicapped workers. Some employers have pointed out the difficulty of obtaining certificates before Monday to permit less-than-standard wages to handicapped workers, since the wage-hour division issued its regulations on this subject only last Friday.
HOOSIERS BREAK AIR ENDURANCE RECORD
RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 18 (U. Bo). —Richmond prepared a gigantic parade today for Russ Morris and Bob McDaniels, 24-year-old pilots, who lived six days and five nights in the cramped quarters of a small monoplane to set a new unofficial world endurance record for light airplanes. They took off at 7 a. m. Wednesday, stayed aloft for 130 hours and 10 minutes and landed at 5:10 p. m. yesterday. They broke by 24 hours and 10 minutes a record of 106 hours set last summer by two Syracuse, N. Y., aviators. A cheering crowd of 2500 swarmed over the field to greet them when they landed. _ “We're very happy to be down,” Mr. McDaniels said. “What we want now is a good meal and lots of sleep.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct, 18 (U. P.).—A State Supreme Court ruling upholding convictions of 39 C. I. O. memb s apparently ended today their long fight to escape jail sen-
tences for defying a court order to evacuate the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.'s North Chicago plant during a sit-down strike in February, 1937. The Supreme Court upheld the sentences late yesterday by denying the men permission to appeal from a. ruling of a District \ Appellate Court at Ottawa, Ill. The \Appellate Court had :upheld Judge eodore Forby of the Lake County Circuit Court, who pronounced sentence. The case is of an intrastate nature and could be taken to the U. S. Supreme Court, attorneys said, only under the miost extarordinary circumstances such as the filing of a charge of collusion against the State Court. ~ 39 Sentenced
The defendants, members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate, have been free on bail during their appeal fight. They participated in a sit-down strike started at the plant Feb. 17, 1937, because the company had refused to bargain with the union. The next day they defied an injunction issued by Judge Ralph J. Dady ordering them to get off the property. They stayed in the plant eight days and finally were evicted by Sheriff Lawrence Doolittle and his deputies after an attack on the plant with tear and
E. 12th St.
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By THOMAS
For, lo and behold, just when Republican threat to Governor Phi
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fined $500. Two other
jail and fined $100 each.
Dies ‘Committee To Probe Sit-Downs
ing un-American activities
Meyer Adelman and Oakley Mills, organizers for the C. I. O. steel workers union, who had led the strike, were given the heaviest senAdelman was sentenced to 340 days in jail and fined $1000. Mills was sentenced to 180 days and leaders, Charles Warner and Carl Swanson, were sentenced to 180 days each and fined $300. Eleven were sentenced to 120 days and fined $150 each. The others were sentenced to 10 days in
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.. —The House Committee Investigatwill hear witnesses testify today on the alleged extent of Communist influ-
ence in sit-down strikes in Michigan and Ohio. Chairman Dies (D. Tex.) said that he had gathered evidence to “show directly that Communists wielded a big influence in some of these strikes and in some cases fomented them.” “The Committee will start its investigation where the strikes first occurred,” he said, “and follow the progress of the sit-down through various sections, but only so far as Communists inspired it, directed it and engineered it.” The Committee heard testimony yesterday accusing the FarmerLabor Party of Minnesota and its titular leader, Governor Benson, who recently criticized the Committee, of being influenced by the Communist Party. Rep. Dies said that a ‘subcommittee may meet in Minnesota “because we still have a lot of people who want to testify to this.” “Benson is welcome to testify,” he said, “if he wants to come here and put himself under oath and give his views.”
STRACHEY APPEALS RULING ON ENTRY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— Evelyn John St®Loe Strachey, English writer and lecturer, today had
appealed to the Immigration Service Board of Review from a ruling last week that he was not admissible to the United States. Arthur Garfield Hays, New York attorney, argued for a reversal of the special board of inquiry ruling at Ellis Island. Commissioner. of Immigration James L. Houghteling, who heard the appeal, reserved decision. It was pointed outjat the hearing that Mr. Strachey must have a valid visa in order to obtain entry into this country.
LEAVES $247,504 ESTATE NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (U. P).— Theodore Kaufmann, retired Pittspurgh merchant, left a net estate of $247,504, it was revealed today. His widow, Mrs. Estelle G. Kaufmann, Pittsburgh, received $25,000 plus the income for life from a $100,000 fund. He died Feb. 26.
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‘Bribe’ Charge in Wisconsin
Aid LaFollettes
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Times Special Writer MADISON, Wis., Oct. 18.—The La Follette brothers seem to possess a few lucky toes off the Roosevelt rabbit's foot. :
they were confronted with a real 1 La Follette’'s re-election, up pops
a “scandal” involving the Republican candidate for Governor, wealthy
tool manufacturer, and an indefor the Senate, the indefatigable
John B. Chapple, who runs for something or other every two years.
Mr. Chapple, Ashland newspaper publisher, has charged that Mr. Heil sought to “bribe” him and get him out of the senatorial race by offering him $100 each for 26 campaign speeches, in other words, $2600 total.
The Townsendite candidate has laid his charges before the La Follette Administration's Attorney General in a 37-page document and thus given the issue a position where it is likely to rise up frequently between now and Nov. 8.
The La Follettes can be counted upon to make the most of it. For they were worried about Phil’s reelection, which concerns them especially now since they have launched their third party National Progressives ‘of America and must retain control in Wisconsin as a nucleus around which to build it. Nor have their worries ceaseds
Ominous signs appeared when the Republicans rolled up an impressive vote in the recent primaries, far beyond the Progressive Party control. Elation spread through Republican ranks, especially among the big industrial and financial interests, which opened their pocketbooks and prepared for a bang-up campaign to defeat the La Follette dynasty.
Wiley for Senater
For Senator they had nominated a man of political experience with a progressive outlook, Alexander Wiley, who was defeated for Governor in 1936 when Phil La Follette won his third term. How anxious were the La Follettes
primary. Both took to the stump in different directions. - Since the Heil-Chapple embroglio, things are looking up some. Democrats have not been mentioned previously and they are just about in shape. They seem destined to run in show position Nov. 8. This is bad news to President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley, for they are anxious to see Democratic Senator J. Ryan Duffy returned to the Senate. The general impression ‘is that Mr. Duffy can’t pull through. His two opponents are Mr. Wiley and Herman Ekern, the Progressive Party candidates. The latter is favored since the turn in La Follette fortunes. Governor La Follette also should benefit, it is argued, from the substitution made by the Democrats in gubernatorial candidates. When Robert-K. Henry, who ran as a coalition candidate on both Republican and Democratic tickets and won the Democratic nomination,
lected a 75-year-old conservative
State Senator, Harry W. Bolens, as their candidate. Mr. Bolens was one of the leaders against the La Follette program in the Senate.. He is expected to attract conservative Democrats from the Republican total and this should give Phil a good chance, as always before, to slip in between—or so say the prophets at this stage of the campaign. Similarly, it is forecast that Mr. Chapple, in addition to injuring the Republican ticket generally by his charges, is likely to draw support from Republican Wiley in the Senatorial race, since Republicans have been flirting with the Townsend plan while the Progressives have stood strong against it. = : Mr. Heil made no offers to pay Mr. Chappel for speeches, but that this was done independently by the Heil-for-Governor Club. A photostatic copy of the contract, submitted to the Attorney General's office, shows that the Heil-for-Gov-
Heil’s name does not appear. Wisconsin voters seem able to keep all these tickets and candidates straight, but it would not be surprising if they got somewhat confused at the great variety of issues thrown at them from the stump every day in a state where all candidates get out and talk to their
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