Evening star., 1925-06-20
DOYLE CASE IS PUT
BEFORE PRESIDENT
Veterans Joint Committee
Asks Coolidge to Act in
Printing Office Controversy.

President Coolidge today was ap-
pealed TO by the veterans joint com
mittee To save from discharge Burton
w. Doyle, who is under suspension
from the Government Printing Office
on charges preferred against him by
Public Printer Carter
The veterans joint committee in
closed with its appeal to the Presi.
dent copies OF letters exchanged be
tween Doyle and the public printer.
Doyle IL charged, according to the
public printers letter. with having
made statements rejecting upon the
mia ma cement of the printing office
cafeteria, and with having written "A
letter to President Coolidge com
posed largely of malicious false hoods.
particularly as to the statements
which YOU allege | have made con.
cerning union officials and your mem
bership in the local union"
Charges Personal Bias.
Doyle I'm his letter. protests that
the statements he made concerning
the cafeteria were but bit of office
gossip" the truth of which he alone
should not be called upon to sub
stantiate. He replies To the public
printers other charges by saving that
Il repeat and renew the charges |
under date Of June 10. What |
stated To the President IL true
Doyle further states he is an eX-
service man. and that the charges
made by the public printer consist
of matters entirely beyond the scope
of my employment.
Final action on the charges. ac-
cording To Mr.. Carriers letter, WAS
10 be taken today. when considera =
tion will be given all the evidence
then on file in this office.
AT the Government Printing Office
this morning. n representative Of The
Star. who asked to see Mr.. carter
was told that the public printer was
in a conference and would not be
abie" to see him today.
Declare Charges Trivial.
The veterans joint committee. in
it's letter TO the President. decla red
that "Comrade DOYLE is a moral ma n
and no charges Of misconduct. in or
out of the office. have been preferred
against him which relate to his work
az an employe of the Governmen mt
Printing Office. The sole offense, If
any pretended and preferred by the
public printer against Comrade Doyle
is the fact that he communicated TO
"A fellow workman. during the lunch
hour q rumor which was current In
the Government Printing Office that
certain charges were contemplated
I a gainst former employe or official
! in the cafeteria of the Government
! Printing Office.
He was not the author of the
charge nor is ne sponsor for the truth h
| Of it, This fact is undenied. Certainly
the whole affair il trivial. unless il is
the purpose of the public printer 10
! satisfy his personal vanity and vim
dictiveness by discharSing Comrade
| DOYLE because of his connection with
! a union.
! When Comrade Doyle was repri-
| manded for the above alleged ffense,
! continued the appeal to lie President,
! ''he was admonished by the public
| printer not to repeat the rumor. He
! advises that he has obeyed that ad-
! monition and only repeated it in his
| communication to the President.
rs he now to be Denalized for ad-
vising of a situa ton which he saws
| exists and is true, and which he Is
| willing to substantiate before any
| impartial tribunal?
We do not believe that you will
! permit his discharge in his manner
| and under these circumstances. and
we earnestly appeal To YOU in his
| behalf
The correspondence between the
! public printer and DOYLE is acrimo-
| nious in many places. charges and
| countercharses concerning the union
| being flung back and forth.