Walling v. Goldblatt Bros.

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Our question here is whether defendant’s employees are within Sections 6 and 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 52 S'tat. 1060, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq.

Defendant owns and operates three warehouses in Chicago at which it receives merchandise from some forty-five states and from which it thereafter distributes goods to its ten extensive department stores, seven of which are in Chicago, one in Joliet, Illinois, one in Hammond, Indiana, and one in Gary, Indiana. All sell at retail the various articles usually found in a large department store. The warehouses are…