The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-01-19
Girl NLRB Lawyers Get Okay
On Looks---Not on Experience
Committee Bares
Lack of Long
Service
BY BRUCE CATION
Waterbury Democrat Washington
COrrespondent)

Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Washington Jan. 10 That the
Labor Boards 10 women review
attorneys are very good-looking
may have pleased the Smith in
investigating commit re. before
which six Of them testified, but 1t
was only incidental TO the commit
tees main point.
What the committee had against
them was not their comeliness but
the fact that none Of them were
hoary and grizzled veterans Of the
bar.
Committee Counsel Edmund To-
land CALAMITY refrained from asking
the six their ages.
He was more interested In
bringing out that they hadn't
been around SO very long.
Two Of them - Margaret McDufI
Farmer and Carolyn Agger - were
hired In the spring Of 1898, q few
days before they had even been
admitted TO the bar. Ann Landy
Wolf got her law degree In 1887 and
came to the board less than O year
later. Anne Freezing got her degree
In 1888 and was hired In 1887:
Margaret Bennett Porter entered
practice In 1882 and came to the
board In 1887; veteran Of the lot
was Fannie M. Boyls, who left law
school In 1929 and had FIVE years
practice before entering government
service.
CLAIM INEXPERIENCED
GIRLS DO VITAL WORK
Toland wants TO show that the
board entrusted o. vital part Of Its
work to young and inexperienced
lawyers. A review attorney passes
on the record Of case as sent In
by q trial examiner and, roughly
speaking, tells the board what It's
all about.
The record may run to 1000
pages or more; the review attor-
ney digests 1t. makes notes, and then
reports orally TO the board.
Anne Freezing was asked:
FOR their knowledge Of the EVIL
dence IN the case other than such
fragmentary reading of the record
as there might be, they depend up
OH this oral statement that you
give them?"
THAT Is right"
Ealier she was asked:
"How would the board know,
except for their confidence In you,
that you were giving them every
thing that was In this 2,0O0-pagc
Transcript"
"Well, suppose except in .
case where there had been an
oral argument the board relies
upon It's review attorneys"
Eyes, II had 10 rely upon what
you told them was In the evidence,
did II not7"
"That Is right"
Toland also brought out that no
record was kept OF what 0 review
attorney told the board, so that q
respondent could never find out
precisely what had been presented.
AND ONE OF THEM
HAS CHANGED DIAPERS
Toland insists that this gives the
review attorney an awful lot OF
power-too much for youthful law
yerS. Charles Fahy, the boards gen.
eral counsel, denies this holly.
A review attorney, he says, does
for the board what law clerk does
for o Judge, The jobs important,
but not as all-important as Toland
suggests Besides, these wonderland
the rest Of the review staff - arc
mighty capable, he says.
Incidentally, attaches Of the
board are pretty sore about the
committees tactics. The board has
los review attorneys, they say;
why did the committee pick out
just the women for its first wit.
ncsses, unless II wanted to put
over o fast one?
Congressman Glare Huffman
wasn't quite correct when he sneer-
cd that none OF these young women
had ever changed diaper or hung
out washing" Mrs. Margaret
Ben,Y,St Porter Is the mother OF
twins.
Fifteen hundred tenants OF To-.