Liegey Trustee v. Clearfield Tex.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The controversy out of which this appeal arose is between forty-eight female employees and their employer, Clearfield Textile Company. The company operates a plant for the manufacture and production of woven fabrics; the employees operated loom machines upon which they wove a velvet fabric, known in the trade as “Pile Warp,” their wages being fixed at a specified rate for each yard produced. Each machine was equipped with a mechanical device, commonly called a clock, which purported, to indicate accurately the number of yards woven by its operator. The employees…