Moss v. Hawaiian Dredging Co.

GOODMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are approximately 5,00 longshoremen, known as “walking bosses,” and *529approximately 700 marine terminal ware-housemen, who, in 32 cases consolidated for trial, seek recovery from their employers of certain alleged unpaid overtime wages pursuant to § 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq.

Suits were instituted on behalf of the warehousemen in November of 1945 and related, so far as the claims for payment of overtime are concerned, to the period beginning in November of 1942. Suits on behalf of the longshoremen “walking bosses”…