Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-01-25 | Page 7 | U. S Judge Denies Portal-to-Portal Pay Required

i U. U Judge S. S Denies to Portal-to-Portal Pay Re Required LYNCHBURG Va Jan 25 I UP UP-A UP A declaratory Judgment that the tha Jewell Ridge Ridge Co Coal l corpo corporation corporation corpo corpo- ration n is not required by the fair labor standards act to pay its miners on th the portal to portal portal to sch schedule dule asked by the United Mine Workers of ot America was filed mad madIn In federal district court here Tuesday Tues Tues- d day y The Judgment written by Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral District Ju Judge ge A. A D D. Barksdale Barks dale upheld ld the coal oal company's cont contention against several locals and the United Mine Workers of ot America that the work week d does e enot not include that portion of the time spent p nt by the company's underground work workers worker r. r in in- b being t transported or or walking to and from their th rr Usual working places I Th The p proceedings oc edh gs were brought bro 4 4 about six months ago go by the cO coal 1 company u as s a test teat case cale of th the to portal issue The Southern South South- r r ern em Coal Producers' Producers association which backed the c company w was allowed to intervene as a friend of f the court