Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15
EXPIRE
ON LABOR BOARD
Three Members Get Through
Today, Making First Birth
day Of This Federal Body

CHICAGO, April 15.-The terms
of three members of the United
States Railroad Labor Board expires
today, marking the first birthday of
the federal body as established I'M
der the Transportation Act of 1920.
One member from each of the pub
lie. railway and labor groups ter
inmates his one-year appointment.
The n year members were
Henry Il. Hunt, of Cincinnati. for
the public; w. l.. Park, of Chicago,
railway member; and ]. j. Forces
ter. of Washington, d. c.. repre-
senting labor. They nay be reap
pointed or successors appointed by
the President, with the confirma-
ton of congress.
The Railroad Labor Board on
sists of nine members, three in each
of the public railway and labor
groups. When the first appoint
ments were made on April 10, 1920,
n member of each group was ap-
pointed for one year, one from each
group for two years and the third
from each group for three years.
Appointments as vacancies occur are
to be for five years.
The outgoing public member
Henry Thomas Hunt, is a lawyer
and former mayor of Cincinnati.
During the war, he attended the first
officers training camp at Forth Ben
Harrison, being commissioned first
lieutenant and subsequently being
promoted to major in May, 1913.
Major Hunt served with the A. E. F.
from September of that year until
the following January and was a
member of the War Department
Board of Contract Adjustment in
Washington when appointed to the
Labor Board.
Mr.. Hunt was born In 1878 and
was graduated from Yale and Gin
cinnati Law School. being admitted
to the Ohio bar in 1908. He prac-
ticed law in Cincinnati. being elected
to the state legislature in 1906 for
two years and serving as mayor OF
the city from 1912 to 1914.
William Lee Park, railway MEM
Der. has been a railroad man since
1875, when he entered the service
of the Union Pacific as a brakeman.
after studying at Seagroves Academy,
Omaha, Neb. Two years later, at the
age of Is, he was promoted to freight
conductor and at %. was made a
passenger conductor. He continued
with the Union Pacific for 35 years,
as Va
western divisions.
In March. 1910, Mr.. Park became
vice president of the Illinois Central
and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Railroads.. in charge OF operation,
maintenance of way construction and
hospital departments. In Novem-
her. 1918, he was appointed vice
. resident of the Chicago Great Wes-
Mern Railroad in charge of all de-
partments, except traffic and ac-
counting. and continued with this
Soad as federal manager under the
u. S. Railroad Administration.
The Labor member, John ]. For
rester, was born on a farm in Ohio,
In 1857, and has been a railroad man
since 1882. He began on the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern (now
the New York CENTRALLY as a mes
senger and extra ticket clerk, mean
while teaching school and studying
law in his spare hours. After a var
led clerical experience on the Wa
bash and Clover Leaf. he returned
to the Lake Shore e. Michigan
Southern in 1902 at Toledo.
In 1904, Mr.. Forester became as
slstant chief clerk for the general
superintendent of the Hooking VAL
ley Railroad at Columbus. O., and
three years later resigned to accept
a position as organizer for the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. He
the organization until his election in
1915 as grand president. He was
reelected president in 1919.