Edgar W. Dickenson, Jr. v. United States

Dickenson, a San Diego auto parts dealer, was convicted of six counts under an information charging him with violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 1060 , 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. The charges concerned payment of wages to several employees.

We summarize:

1. Count one charged that Dickenson filed with the wage and hour administrator false receipt forms with respect to wages due workers Madrigal, Roberts and Martinez. In a stipulated civil contempt decree, *Dickenson had previously agreed to certain amounts due the three laborers.

2. Count two charged that Dickenson, between August 12,1959, and August 12, 1961, did pay less than a dollar an hour to employees Cesena, Martinez, Rubalcava and Zertuche for work.

3. Count three charged that he worked the same four employees over forty hours a week during the same period mentioned in count two without paying them a dollar and a half an hour for overtime.

4. Count four charged that for the same period he kept false records showing that the four employees named in count two worked less hours than they actually worked.

5. Count five, for the same period, charged that he failed to make, preserve and keep records for…