Holding the Line

WAGES & SALARIES

The Wage Stabilization Board, which ordered a nationwide wage freeze a year ago, last week got around to making the order stick. In Detroit, a regional WSB enforcement commission found the J. D. Hedin Construction Co. guilty of paying $40,000 in over-the-ceiling wages, the first such major decision since the freeze. It found that Hedin's bricklayers got $3 an hour for working on a Veterans Administration hospital when WSB regulations allowed only $2.75. The commission ruled that Hedin must pay federal income taxes on the $40,000, and ordered the VA to deduct the sum from its contract with Hedin. WSB is investigating 267 other companies in New York and New Jersey suspected of paying wages above the legal ceiling.

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