Evening star., 1940-04-29
n. |. R. B. Man Admits
Transmitting Draft
MC.I. 0. Resolution
Says He Doesn't Recall
Writing Attack on Senate
Foes, But Agrees With X
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

"
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Heber Blankenhorn, a special in
vestigator for the National Labor
Relations Board, admitted before
the Smith Investigating Committee
Of the House today that he ad-
dressed to Board Chairman Warren
]. Madden a memorandum trans
mitting proposed resolution which
was to be submitted to the Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations in
convention at Atlantic City.
The resolution condemned Senate
hostility to the inquiry then being
conducted by the La Toilette Civil
Liberties Committee.
Mr.. Blankenhorn said he had no
recollection of drafting the resolu-
ton and, to the hest of his knowl-
edge, he did not, but he submitted
it to Mr.. Madden.
The memorandum to which the
proposed resolution was attached
said:
with Denver (where the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor was meet
ing) ignoring the Senate Committee,
La Toilette, returning. might think
his work forgotten. It seemed ad-
visable to have the c. I. o. speak
a piece. The attached superheated
eloquence was put into their hands.
What they will do at Atlantic City
! don't know"
That, said the witness, was in his
handwriting. The resolution was
typewriter.
Identifies Handwriting.
Edmund M. Toland, committee
counsel, said he would call in Bu-
reau Of Standard experts TO show
the typewriting on the suggested
c. I. o. resolution conformed to that
Of other communications taken from
Mr.. Blankenhorn's files at the Labor
Board.
The attached communication, he
added. was entitled "draft-C. I. o.
resolution" and said:
THE c. I. o. demands that reac-
tionary leaders in the Senate should
cease sabotaging, through niggardly
appropriations and covert hostility
the investigation by the Senate's
Subcommittee on Civil Liberties.
Senators La Toilette (Wisconsin)
and Thomas CUtah) of that commit
tee have earned the gratitude of
labor and the admiration of AZ
liberty loving men for their deter
mined unearthing of what consti-
tutes, in sum, the methods of fas-
cism in this country. They have
turned a hot light on evil areas of
the employers domain, whose exist
ence was known to labor from bitter
experience, but which labor was
helpless to expose. The unsavory,
but now undisputed, record Of en-
ployers' practices runs all the way
from private corruption to public
massacre"
Witness Agrees With Recitation.
Representative Routzohn, Repub-
iican, of Ohio asked Mr.. Blanken-
horn whether the C. I. o. resolution
relating to the La Toilette Commit
tee represented his views.
II agree with the facts recited."
said the witness.
The witness did identify state
ment he addressed to the board
nearly four year ago. when its ac-
tions were hampered constantly by
injunctions-in the period before the
Supreme Court upheld the Wagner
Act.
I'VE can" wrote Mr.. Blanken-
horn, make hearings consciously
adtunctive to unionization drives,
to strike preparedness, etc. All the
while we still have the laws inves-
tigatory powers"
Mr.. Blankenhorn added: IN. L.
r. B. sits on it's triple throne a bit
like the church shorn Of the right
to prosecute and hang. Despite
the loss of temporal power, N. L. r.
B. can still thunder from the pulpit
and excommunicate from the con-
gregation of the righteous. That
comforts the flock, disconcerts the
heather and marks down the latter
against the day of wrath to come,