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Try on St, Phone 3-0164 I PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS CONGRATULATIONS TO The Charlotte Labor Journal From CHARLOTTE'S LEADING MEN’S CLOTHIERS 126 South Tryou St. 1 Telephone 3-7161 High Court Upholds Claim Of Building Staff Employes To Overtime Compensation Washington, D. C. — Deciding in overtime pay suit against own ers of a New York City loft building, the United States Su preme Coiirt held unanimously that hourly formulae in wage agreements must provide for "regular” hourly rates and for at least time and a half for over time. One formula included in a wage contract between the 149 Madison Avenue Corporation and its serv ice' and maintenance employes failed to meet requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the court found. _„__; The lower court! were upheld in their ruling! that a group of service employes were allowed to 1 recover overtime compensation. The opinion, written by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, stated that the court did not mean to rule invalid a wage plan simply because it used a formula In de termnining weekly wages. The “crucial” question, it stated, was whether the “hourly rate” derived from the formula con stituted a “regular rate" and ( whether the formula provided Ad equately for overtime compensa tion. The contract in question, cover ing employment in 1942 and 1943, provided for a 54-hour work week for watchmen and a 46-hour week for other service and maintenance employes. Weekly wages, to include pay- j ments for regular hours (the first 40) and for hours over 40, were to be determined by the following formula: “The hourly rates for those regularly employed more than 40 hours per week shall be deter mined by dividing their weekly ' earnings by the number of hours ! employed plus one-half of the (number of hours actually em ployed in excess of 40 hours.” The court said that this form ula. in effect, gave the employe \ “constant” hourly rate, whether he worked the scheduled number of hours or put in mure or fewer hours. The Chief Justice pointed out that the contract made no pro vision for a guaranteed weekly wage with an hourly rate stip ulated. Counsel for the 149 Madison Avenue Corporation said that this decision would affect thousands of building-service employes in New York. *" ! ARTISTS, ACTORS RESENT ATTACKS ON LABOR RIGHTS Seattle, Wash. — Organised writers, artists and other radio professionals of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFL) here, havs unanimously protested growing attacks on freedom of thought and labor’s rights. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, Repub lican, New Jersey, head of the House Committee on Unameri can Activities, received a stinging resolution from the membership of AFRA expressing its alarm at the “increasing fervor of at tacks upon the civil liberties, both of individuals and minority groups." The artists rejected the idea that there is “virtue in im posed conformity of thought” and reaffirmed their bel'ef in “the right to differ, to argue, to dis sent." They called on Pesident Tru man and Congress to take a “firm stand in support of the bill of rights” and declared them selves ‘Unalterably opposed to any legislation or any action by the Federal Government which restricts, circumvents or abolishes the right to think, to speak or to act according to the dictates of conscience." AFL FARMERS TO DISCUSS COOPERATIVES AT PARLEY Monteagle, Tenn.—The forma tion of co-operatives for farmers will be a topdrawer subject at the 6-day summer school planned by the National Farmers Labor Un ion (AFL) at Highlander Fold School on July 27-31. Students will be drawn from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkan sas farmers union homes. The Tennessee quota will be 25. Send in yonr subscription to the Labor Journal today! — ■. . Smokey Says: Young trees need Are protection— if fire is prevented these trees wil finally wind up at a rswmilL 6.000 GRANTED RAISES IN DETROIT LAUDERIES Detroit, Mich.-—Approximately 6,000 laundry and cleaning work ! er in this area won the equiva lent of 10 and a half cents an hour from the joint labor com mittee of the Linen Laundry and Industrial Cleaners Association, according to Laundry Workers’ Local 129 (AFL). The blanket raise was 7 cents an hour plus three paid holidays and a 40-hour basic week. I. Unrle Sam Sayg Here is i sale sign, fries*, which alters you a safe, sure, profitable purchase for year future. Wherever yes see it—at ysur bask, postoffice sr where you work—stop, look and act. By actios I mean joining the Payroll Rarlifs Plas. Or If yos are a professional mas or woman or self-employed ask yoar bask about the Boad-a-Montb plan by which you raa bay Savings Bonds automatical ly out of money Is yoar checking account. 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