Stanley Forman Reed

“ The Fair Labor Standards Act extends to employees 'engaged in commerce', not merely to those engaged in transportation. [19] As the Bolle case itself points out: 'Commerce covers the whole field of which transportation is only a part'. ”

“ The effect of the Court's decision today, however, is to recognize that federal power over commerce has been sweepingly exercised when an employee's work is in the production of goods for commerce, but to limit it when the employee's activities are in transportation or connected therewith, to the narrow and legislatively repudiated view of the Shanks, Bolle, Commission and Bezue cases. Such an unbalanced application of the statute is contrary to its purpose of affording coverage broadly 'throughout the farthese reaches of the channels of interstate commerce' to employees 'engaged in commerce'. ”

“ The anomaly of this is clear-there is no sound reason for extending the benefit of the Act to a rate clerk employed in the office of an interstate motor carrier and denying them to the janitor who keeps the office clean and warm, or the employee who works in the carrier's shop on machinery used to repair interstate vehicles, or on the vehicles themselves. ”