Show ECONOMIC highlights happenings that affect tile the I 1 of kir aery individual I 1 ration national tl and Inter natio ila i inseparable brorn local welfare A short tillie ago tile the saturday ida EvI evialine Aling post printed tin nn article call ailed the federal snoops snoop s are aie aftel mi ile jr britten itten by dobinson Eo h binson 1 n ishoi of tile the 1 aown 0 also n I 1 birton 1 1 atoll iani 1 Ar arelline archive ellive mr all Mcl N 1 cli haine vaine mid and his wi wife fe had bought this little keeli We elI papu paper on the pro pio shoestring and were mere kt get K t anik long nicely until a ie presen dative of tile wage are and hour houi divi DIM sion of tile the federal government ap with ith a 11 long bill of parti cu luis lars of unfair practices which vilich the put lihi had g commit led mi his fol dowed lowed up till tile the post ami piece with ith a further of events tenth which ile he printed in his paper it till all amounts tu to nn an interesting firsthand first fust hand hind account of it ho how federal lis laws whose intent iii tint is perfectly rood good cm call cje li tamed c a r ried to to of interprets inter preta t tion I 1 0 n which aich make thein almost I 1 in credibly oneidus kiib to bus and especially small business newspapers of liss less than IHK are an exempt from tilt lie wages akes ind and llouis ait act and all willaim Mell vaine assumed that ins his archive archie avith ith a en dilation of about 1 achl naturally fill fell into this category KOI llowen llo wei wever it seemed that tile the printing end of tile paper hul had bien been bi en st set s t up is as a separate sipai att corporate corpo rati iol 1 and this leral legal quirk brought i it t within the scope of the law hn mi air Mell mcelvaine vaine dian didn t think ile wits aa in it rasi d in ili interstate cominek ee cither but lie he was vas wrong stion ulain simply because he punted printed letterheads for foi firms which aich mail letters out t of the stati state I 1 that 1 hat was only the beginning of tin the tiou h bloh it had licin been a common practice for foi years for foi groups of people young oun and old to drop in at the little plant tuh each t uh wednesday Widnes day evening veiling and an fold the papers for foi mailing mai linK next day th ahey y earned a little money and they had a lot of fun but acco according iding to the wages and hours houis agent each one would henceforth have to have a time caid ard c a social security card caid and a r d all kinds of records would have to be kept result mi Mell vaine who was already heavily in ili debt bor boi goed more moie money on his remain ing assets and bought a press pi ess which mechanically folds the pa pers some time later the wage and I 1 hour D u t people moved again araan mr mi mcilvaine aleli li v a ine was wa ordered to pay 1 in in back wages which he have of this was vas to go to the foreman the foreman fo ieman incidentally 11 1 1 tally had been paid a n straight io 1 1 a week ve k with pa paid d vacation and had been away two more weeks lecause of sickness so lie hail had already received for time he had been absent lint but lie he got the additional dit ional 1 1 most amazing of till nil ac t of tile the back wages ages acco according iding to the wage and hour division diM slon had to be paid to himself himsel fl 1 Ap parentI hed been taking out less than tile the proper salary ond and that just lesal legal li mcilvaine Mi Ilvaine cites more in instances of this sort boit and observes that tile the archives dosier at the wage tild hour office 1 I n now low about 15 inches thick and it would be hard to estimate how many of our oui tax dollars were eie spent on oil this gati antion oll in III all probability thousands of little businesses have found themselves involved invoked in ili similar predicaments the bit big business with its lesal legal and accounting de parti rients can call take the huge mass of laws las and ruling and bureau cratie antic practices pretty much in stride the small operation opi ration on the other hand takes the beating THE 1111 COUNTRY ISS SAYS SAS GRAHAM NORTH CAROLINA GLEANER americas Amer icis most hobt |