(a) Under the principles stated in § 776.9, the wage and hours provisions of the Act apply typically, but not exclusively, to employees such, as those in the telephone, 29 telegraph, 30 television, radio, 31 transportation and shipping 32 industries, since these industries serve as the actual instrumentalities and channels of interstate and foreign commerce. Similarly, employees of such businesses as banking, insurance, newspaper publishing, 33 and others which regularly utilize the channels of interstate and foreign commerce in the course of their operations, are generally covered by the Act.
30
Western Union
Telegraph Co. v. Lenroot,323 U.S. 490
Western Union Telegraph Co. v. McComb, 165 F.
2d 65 (C.A. 6), certiorari denied 333 U.S. 862; Moss v.
Postal Telegraph Cable Co., 42 F. Supp. 807 (M.D. Ga.).
32
Overnight Motor
Co. v. Missel,316 U.S. 572; Hargis
v. Wabash R. Co., 163 F. 2d 607 (C.A. 7); Rockton & Rion
R.R. v. Walling 146 F. 2d 111 (C.A. 4), certiorari
denied 334 U.S. 880; Walling v. Keansburg Steamboat
Co., 162 F. 2d 405 (C.A. 3); Knudsen v. Lee
& Simmons, 163 F. 2d 95 (C.A. 2); Walling v.
Southwestern Greyhound Lines, 65 F. Supp. 52 (W.D. Mo.);
Walling v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp., 61 F.
Supp. 992 (E.D. S.C.).
33
Sun Pub.
Co. v. Walling, 140 F. 2d 445 (C.A. 6), certiorari
denied 322 U.S. 728. See also Oklahoma Press Pub. Co. v.
Walling,327 U.S. 186, and McComb v.
Dessau, 9 W.H. Cases 332 (S.D. Calif.) 17 Labor Cases, 65,
643.
(b) Employees whose work is an essential part of the stream of interstate or foreign commerce, in whatever type of business they are employed, are likewise engaged in commerce and within the Act's coverage. This would include, for example, employees of a warehouse whose activities are...
