Word: holtzoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff (who upheld Harry Truman's seizure of the steel industry in 1952, and was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court) ruled on the case. Judge Holtzoff pointed out that the Walsh-Healey Act permits the Department of Labor to set minimum wages by "locality," but said that blanketing the whole U.S. under that term is a "tortured interpretation."* His conclusion: the Labor Department cannot set nationwide minimum wage rates under the Walsh-Healey...
...proper for employers in one section of the country to pay less for the same work as long as they can get away with it. Under this kind of reasoning we should also abolish the federal minimum wage law [under which the minimum is 75? an hour]. If Judge Holtzoff's philosophy prevails, we shall have taken a long step backward toward the sweatshop and the slums...
Naturally, New England textile manufacturers were lined up with the T.W.U. in this case. Continued lower wages in the South help to hold them under a serious disadvantage. Management and labor outside the textile industry were deeply interested too. If the Holtzoff ruling is finally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, it can affect pay scales in nearly 50 other industries...
...Commenting on this interpretation, Judge Holtzoff quoted a passage from Lewis Carroll's Through the Loo king-Glass: " 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less...
Before the sentencing, Lolita Lebroón was allowed to address the court. Said she: "I love you and I love the world and I love God ... I ask God to forgive you and I forgive you, too." Judge Holtzoff was less willing to forgive. The four conspirators, he snapped, had shown no remorse for their "crime, so heinous, so infamous, so daring and atrocious...