Powell v. United States Cartridge Co.

The question in each of these cases is whether the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 1 applies to a person employed by a private contractor at a Government-owned munitions plant operated by the contractor under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract made with the United States. We hold that the Act does apply but we do not reach the question of the validity of the individual claims based upon it.

This issue was argued here in Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co., 334 U. S. 249. We, however, remanded that case and withheld decision of the issue, awaiting a.more solid basis of findings. Id. at p.…