Chambers v. W. L. Florence Const Co.

E. MARVIN UNDERWOOD, District Judge.

Alleging that he was employed by defendants from August 1, 1943 to December 29, 1943 as a watchman at a basic rate of fifty cents per hour in the construction of an airport in Floyd County, Georgia, under Project No. 904-9-40 of the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics of the United States Department of Commerce, and worked twelve hours a day seven days a week, petitioner sues to recover $742.08 as wages claimed to be due and unpaid. Predicating his action upon the Eight Hour Acts, Labor, 40 U.S.C.A. §§ 324, 325, 326, 325a, and Executive Order No. 9240, 40…