Word: breitenstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago decided that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife . . . The Taft-Hartley law would have me resign from all that...
Last week Greinetz won his point. Ruled Federal Judge Jean S. Breitenstein: "These are older people who need this break to enable them to work, but there is no reason for Greinetz to pay for it." Labor Department experts could think of no similar court decision* on the coffee break. Since it could upset a long-standing Labor Department ruling that any rest period of less than 20 minutes counts as working time, Government attorneys considered an appeal to higher courts...
...JOHN A. BREITENSTEIN U.S.A.F. Fairbanks, Alaska...