The Ely miner., 1938-11-10


Gently went into effect, Elmer F.
Andrews left a job which gave him
shorter h ours
+. r. Andrews and more wages.
Has Taken on AS New York
FuU-Time Job state industrial
commissioner,
his salary was $4,000, and he could
get by nicely with a seven or eight
hour day. This job pays $4,000,
and, considering its volume of de-
tail, its complications, its novelty
and its controversial entanglements,
it looks like a 24-hour shift for Mr..
Andrews.
He is a professional engineer,
born in New York, earnest and
diligent, glutton for detail, lv-
ing moderately in Flushing with
his wife and three children until
his removal to Washington. In
addition to his five years as
state industrial commissioner,
having succeeded his former
chief, Miss Frances Perkins, in
that office, his experience in
wage and hour adjustments has
been with industrial concerns
and chambers of commerce.
After his graduation from RenS
selaer Polytechnic institute, he was
pilot in the U. S. army air service
in the World war. He built rail-
roads and factories in Cuba and en-
gagged in construction work in New
York City, planning civic improve
ments for the Greensboro Chamber
of Commerce, among other large
scale enterprises. In these years
he engaged in compensation studies
for various industrial groups. He
was labor adviser for the National
Labor board in the coal mining re-
gions of Kentucky, Alabama and
Pennsylvania.
Never belligerent, Mr.. An
drews has been more of an ar
bitter than a fighter, although he
did take on certain employment
agencies for battle when he
was industrial commissioner.
He swings no nightstick, and
tells the employers this isn't go
ing to hurt them in the least.
He is a New Dealer, but goes to 1
Washington with perhaps more.
political detachment than any
similarly placed official down
there. Mr.. Andrews is 48 years
old.
THE late Newton D. Baker liked
to discourse on the importance
of keeping Intellectually liquid"
and free from embarrassing alli-
:, ances and COM
y. II. Amen mitments. John
DISTINGUISHED Harlan Amen,
Non-Joiner runner up for
Thomas E. Dew
ey in the national racket-busting
tournament, is that way, too. AS
signed to the sensational crime and
graft cleanup in Brooklyn, he al
lows the reporters to drag out of
him the admission that he "never
belonged to anything
AS an assistant United States
attorney, he has been netting
racketeers steadily since the
United States put teeth in the
Sherman act in 1884. In view
of ]. Edgar Hoover's revelations
as to the overlapping of crime
and venal politics, Mr.. Amen's
political detachment is interest
ing. 1t is also interesting in our
new realization that federaliZa-
ton of our government has been
in part due to the failure of the
states really to govern. Mr..
Amen, like Mr.. Dewey, has
made his name in this overlap
ping zone of state and federal
authority.
He is grave, aloof aristocrat,
with an academic background of
Phillips-Exeter, Princeton and Har-
ward. He is son-in-law of Presi-
dent Cleveland, with a residence in
Park avenue, great intellectual and
social reserve.
THIS writer happened to be in
4 Italy when the fascist regime
was emerging and saw underpriv-
ileged youth joyously engaged in
~ !, >, beating up hold
Jas. w drsndif outs and lag
Alarmed Ouer CARDS and slash.
JobIess Youth ing up the Ii
brary of an old
professor who had indiscreetly af-
firmed his faith in democracy.
James Marshall, president of the
New York board of education, is
alarmed about our jobless youth,
aged from 18 to "a. He says it was
this condition which made fascism
in other countries and we had better
watch our step. He proposes dras-
tic national solution.
Mr.. Marshall is a lawyer by
profession, the son of the late
Louis Marshall, one of the most
eminent lawyers in New York's
history. He was appointed to
the board of education in 1885
and became president of the
board last June. He is a genial,
philosophical pipe-smoker, an
alumnus of the Columbia school
of journalism, and the author of
a novel, "Ordeal by Glory"
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