People State New York v. Edwin J. Trapp and Precision Automotive Parts

Precision Automotive Parts, Inc. and its president, Edwin J. Trapp, stand convicted of violating section 962-a of the former Penal Law (now Labor Law, § 198-c). The statute, enacted to secure to workingmen the benefits to which they are entitled under collective bargaining agreements, read as follows: ""In addition to any other penalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer who is party to an agreement to pay or provide benefits, or wage supplements as defined in section two hundred twenty of the labor law, and who fails, neglects or refuses to pay the amount or amounts necessary to provide such benefits or furnish such supplements within thirty days after such payments are required to be made, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Where such employer is a corporation, the president, secretary, treasurer or officers exercising corresponding functions shall each be guilty of a misdemeanor.""