Hoff v. North American Aviation, Inc.

ATWELL, District Judge.

In studying the questions involved in this litigation, it will assist to bear in mind *376that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq., was not a child of the controversy between the nations in which we so recently engaged. It ,was of earlier origin. More than the ordinary conception period was passed through before it was constitutionally born. It sought to remedy an evil. The evil of the sweatshop. The evil of the underpaid manual laborer, male and female. Fleming v. Hawkeye, 8 Cir., 113 F.2d 52. In order to do that, it was necessary for the…