McComb v. Homeworkers' Handicraft Cooperative

PARKER, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division from adverse decrees in a suit instituted against the Millhiser Bag Company, the Chase Bag Company and the Homeworkers Handicraft Cooperative, to restrain violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq. The complaint alleged that Millhiser and Chase were bag manufacturers who employed homeworkers on a piece work basis to insert draw strings in bags of their manufacture at a wage rate below that allowed by the statute, and that these homeworkers were members of…