The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-10

Eagle is third largest in the after that of the department of justice and the patent office.
 There are now 1O9 lawyers on it's payroll with salaries ranging from $4,5OO to $14,OOO.
 The last amount is received by Donald R. Richberg, No. assistant to the president, though still carried on the NRA rolls as genera counsel.
 Actine-General Counsel Black we'll Smith, 27 years old and former assistant to Richberg, draws $S,500 year. Two others on his staff draw similar amounts, several $8,000, about third get $6,0O0, and the rest between $4,500 and .$6,000.
 This scale of pay is consider ably higher than that of either the justice department or the patent office. The latter start their junior law personnel at $2,1OO year, and it takes many years of service to reach the $4,5OO level.
 Another interesting fact about the MIRA barristers is that with few exceptions all of them are youngsters, number of them with the ink hardly dry on their diplomas.
 The explanation offered for this congIomeration of legal brains is that they are needed to "advise with industry" re- garding codes.
 It is significant, in contrast, that the MIRA has neither a labor nor a consumers counsel. There are labor and consumer advisory boards, but no attorneys to represent them.
 WORRIED
 In organized labor circles the business and the White House is causing considerable private un- easinesS.
 What the unionites fear is an administration backed move to put through compulsory labor arbitration.
 Reports that such a plan is being strongly urged by inner ouncil conservatives have cropped up from time to time ever since the president made his surprise announcement that he would seek a truce between labor and industry.
 Except for the vaguely explan- atory speech by Secretary Per- kins at the A. F. of l.. convention in San Francisco, the labor lead CTS have heard nothing more regarding this program.
 But, indirectly, what they view as ominous hints have been dropped by authoritative spokesmen.
 One of the most significant of these hints was a speech by Commerce Secretary Dan Roper in which, he hitimated guardedly that a monentOus labor policy Is being formulated by the ad- ministratiOn.
 Shortly thereafter Ray Moley's magazine hinted that the sug- gestion soon would be made "that labor will be in a much more effective position to bar gain. collectively when recovery is further advanced" This did nothing to dispel the unionites' alarm.
 They are watching the situa- tiOn closely, as are the senate progressiveS.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The toughest job ever to con front Mrse Henrietta Nesbit, executive mansion hopsekeeper. was how to get one of the vast wall mirrors in the east room resilvered. About 20 feet tall, feet wide, and set into the wall, it had, to be removed, taken to d glass works, resilvered, and brought back to the White House and replaced, without the slightest chip. Navy Secre- tary Swanson was one person definitely relieved on the day of the Army-Navy football game when it began raining. Tn bad health, he hadn't wanted to go anyway, but felt he should. He IS no football fan and never. has been. The rain gave him an ex- cellent opportunity to stay away. It took nearly two weeks to get the White House back in- to livable shape after the execu- tive offices had been completed and the executive staff moved out. The capital is in the throes of intensive elevator re- pair work and only one lift in the entire building is operating.
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