The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
EWSPAPER'S
ATTACK ON
NLRB REVEALED

| WASHINGTON. - (FPl-An in
stance of how a large daily pape
treats the National Labor Relation
board and act was inadvertently re
vealed here by the house COMMITTEE
allegedly Investigating the board a
1t began an examination of Phillip G
Phillips, NLRB regional director il
Cincinnati
Placed in the record was a lette
from Phillips to Nathan Witt, NLRI
secretary. 1t declared that he had seei
a copy Of an extremely derogatory
article about the board that was in
tended for publication in the Cincin
natl Enquirer.
The article, Phillips continued, was
submitted to the papers attorney fol-
correction of any possible libel. The
papers attorney replied it was moi
libelous "but the difficulty was that
he felt 1t presented too favorably the
side of the labor board and might
seriously embarrass the company
The city editor, Phillips said, killed
| the story but the interesting thing was
| that the attorney for the paper, Carl
| Jacobs, was also attorney for the
American Rolling Mills Co. in its case
before the board. president of the
American Rolling Mills Co. is Chas.
Hook, former president of the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers
81 am also informed that Mr.. Jacobs
is now writing his own articles for
submission to the Enquirer on the
same subject which will be published
simply as an ordinary dispatch by a
special correspondent" Phillips let
ter said. He thought the city editor
and my Guild friends will doubtless
be able to take care of it without too
much difficulty"
Phillips was placed on the witness
stand after a discharged NLRB offici-
AL James P. Miller, told the committee
he had been fired from his post as
Cleveland regional director because he
tried to administer the act impartial
~"
Files of the NLRB showed that an
investigation had been made of Miller,
now a $3.50 a day labor relations ex-
pert" and that Miller had been dis
charged because of connections with
Glenn O. Smith, a director of the E.
v. Bliss Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y, and
Cleveland attorney.
Questions were also directed at
concerning his handling of the
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. case.
According to Phillips memos the COM
pany was the Cincinnati member of
the National Metal Trades Association.
a labor espionage organization, and
the fountain head of anti-unionism
In the city.
One telegram from Phillips to the
NLRB described settlement offered |
by the company involving the drop
ping of the discriminatory discharge |
charge, and concluded, Local CLIO |
to do so drop the discharge |
claiming obligation to COM
nunists such that they must proceed"
Phillips said Paul Fuller, then CLIO
egional director, told him that the
JIO had an obligation to all its men,
,ers, whether communists, republicans
" democrats, and that it could not
lrop a discriminatory discharge case.
The company had contended that one
# the fired employees was "com-
nunist". Fuller, Phillips told the COM
nittee, is ''rabidly anti-red."
After the reading of this telegram
lep. Routzohn Or. Ohio) took up the
ommittee's cudgels, demanding to
now Phillips politics and his antece-
ents. Phillips said he was a demo-
rat and that he and his parents had
cen born in Cincinnati.
you say you were born in Cincin-
ati," Routzohn demanded. Were
our parents there?"