Altgens v. The Associated Press

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This suit arose under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, Section 8(d), 58 Stat. 798, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 308(d). Appellants, wirephoto operators working in appellee’s Dallas, Texas, bureau, brought this action to recover the sums of $2010 and $1737.50, respectively, as wages, which they alleged that the appellee had failed to pay them upon their reemployment following military service in World War II. The appellee defended on the grounds that the claims were barred by laches and the Texas statute of limitations. It further asserted that the…