Kathy Pinna
4 Ex-Employees Sue Firestone
Minneapolis Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was sued in federal district court in St. Paul Friday by four former employees who asked $9, 832 alleged to be due them in back wages, and an equal amount of damages under the fair labor standards act.
The plaintiffs, who said they all had worked in the company's sales office in Minneapolis as kookkeepers and cashiers, filed similar complaints, declaring they were not paid for overtime worked over the schedule of hours prescribed by the fair labor act.
They are: Vearn L. Robbins, 5237 Elliot Avenue, suing for $2,107.76; Harriet B. Forsman, St. Louis Park, $2,494.09' Ernest O. Lind, 2411 Twenty-third Avenue South, $3,522.71, and James Finlayson, 116 Fifth Street South East, $1,707.50.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Saturday, December 18, 1943 on page 8.
The plaintiffs, who said they all had worked in the company's sales office in Minneapolis as kookkeepers and cashiers, filed similar complaints, declaring they were not paid for overtime worked over the schedule of hours prescribed by the fair labor act.
They are: Vearn L. Robbins, 5237 Elliot Avenue, suing for $2,107.76; Harriet B. Forsman, St. Louis Park, $2,494.09' Ernest O. Lind, 2411 Twenty-third Avenue South, $3,522.71, and James Finlayson, 116 Fifth Street South East, $1,707.50.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Saturday, December 18, 1943 on page 8.
