New Britain herald., 1921-04-16
R. R. LABOR BOAR1 YEAR OLD T6l||
Terms of Its Melnbels ss All Expired

| Chicago April 16.-The term three members of the United S Railroad Labor board expire t (April 15), marking the first birS of the federal body as established der the Transportation Act of One member from each of tAe ps
 railway and labor groups terfnil his one-year appointment.
 The one year members were F3 T. Hunt, of Cincinnati, for the p,, w. l.. Park, of Chicago, dai
 member; and J. J. Forester of W ington. D. C., representing labor.
 may be reappointed or successor
 pointed by the President. with
 confirmation of Congress. ~ The Railroad Labor Board II of nine members, three in each c public railway and labor .grj When the first appointments made on April 15, 1920, one me| of each group was appointed fo1 year. one from each group for years, and the third from each a for three years. Appointments al cancies occur are to be for five y 1 The outgoing public memb Der, Fl Thomas Hunt, is a lawyer and fc' mayor of Cincinnati. During theI he attended the first officers tra' cap at Fort Ben Harrison, t1eingl missioned first lieutenant and s| quently being promoted to ma5 May, 1918. Major Hunt served the A. E. F. from September of year until the following January was a member of the War Dc ] n1ent Board of Contract Adjust in Washington when appointed c Labor Board. MT. Hun was born in 1878 and graduated from Yale and Cinci| Law School, being admitted .td Ohio bar in 1903. He practieeS in Cincinnati, being electe |. state legislature in 1906 for two
 and serving as mayor of the city 1912 to 1914.
 William Lee Park, railway Der, has beenr.a railroad man 1875, when he entered the servtl the Union Pacific as a brakeman, s studying at Seagroves Academy, \
 ha, Neb. Two years later. at th5 Of Is, he was promoted to freight| ductor and at 22, was made a0 senger conductor. He continued the Union Pacific for 35 years, as superintendent of several we divisions.
 E In March 1910, MT. Park bel vice-president of the Illinois Cd and the Yazoo & Mississippi v| Railroads, in charge of operd maintenance of way constrd
 and hospital departments. Tn NJ per- 1918, he was appoied vice-p ent of the Chicago Great Wd Railroad in charge of all departn|j except traffic and accounting, continued with this road as fe|
 manager under the U. S. Railroad ministration.
 The Labor mem Der, John J. Fl ter was born on a farm in Oh
 1867 and has been a railr1l
 since 1882. He began on
 Shore & Michigan Southern InoJ
 New York CentraD as a nless1
 and extra ticket clerk meand
 teaching school and studying ls
 his spare hours. After varied e
 al experience on the Wabash ]
 Clover Leaf, he returned to the
 Shore & Michigan Southern in E
 at Toledo.
 In 1904 Mr. Forester be
 assistant chief clerk for the gel
 superintendent of the Rocking '
 Railroad at Columbus, O.. and
 years later resigned to accept
 sftion as organizef for the BroI
 hood of Railway Clerks. He held
 ious executive positions in the or ]
 zation uptil his election in 1g1I
 grand president. He was reef
 president in 1919. MT. ForresteI|
 became a member of the clerk4
 gnnization in, 1899 and remained
 tive in their affairs through the
 solidation which grouped all orxaI
 tions under. the present Brother}
 of Railway and Steamship CI
 Freight Handlers. Express ,and1
 ton Employes.
 Under the Transportati04t
 members of the board may be
 mated upon the occurrence of
 cancy, but no provision is mad
 continuing present mem bers oi
 boards until they are reappoint
 until successors are named.