Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-15

Natnan WIFI resigned To-Day as
secretary of the National Labor
Relations Board. In a letter to
former Board Chairman j. War.
rem Madden he said his resigna.
ton was submitted since the
President has seen fit not to
nominate you for another term"
B, the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt nominated
Harry A. Mills, Chicago educator
and economist, today to a five-year
term on the National Labor Re-
lations Board. taking the place va
Gated by Chairman j. Warren Mad
den.
The President also submitted to
the Senate a nomination for Mr..
Madden to be judge of the United
States Court of Claims.
DR.. Mills, 81, was a member Of
the Labor Board before it was re-
constituted and given greater pow
ers under the Wagner Act in 1885.
He is expected in some quarters to
cooperate with Board Member Will
liam M. Leiserson in the latters
program for changes in staff and
procedure. Edwin S. Smith is the
third member of the board.
Word also circulated in informed
circles today that Owen D. Young
was to head three-member board
to be assigned broad study of
transportation problems.
Would Correlate Carriers.
The transportation board, to be
appointed by the President subject
to confirmation by the Senate. is
directed to study the relative
economy and fitness" of various
types of carriers with a view to
determining the service for which
types OF carrier is especially fitted
or untitled; the methods by which
each type can and should be
DEVELOPED"
DR.. Leiserson. commenting on the
Mills nomination. said:
1T is a splendid appointment.
don't know of a man better quail
fed"
Senate confirmation will start
board machinery grinding again on
cases which could not be decided
by Mr.. Smith and DR.. Leiserson. A
third member was necessary to cast
the deciding vote on cases in which
| they were deadlocked.
When DR.. Leiserson was named to
the board year ago it was UNDER
stood that his job was to do house
cleaning"
Baked by Other Two, However.
Subsequent testimony before q
House committee disclosed that DR..
Leiserson was baked in his efforts
on at least one occasion by Mr..
Madden and Mr.. Smith.
DR.. Leisersons testimony was that
he failed in his efforts to have the
board relieve Nathan Witt of his
duties as board secretary on the
grounds that secretary's Office had
not been efficiently administered.
Other reorganization proposals
put forward by DR.. Leiserson are re-
ported to have failed because his
one vote was the only support for
them.
DR.. Mills has worked both with
Mr.. Smith or the old Labor Board
and with Dr. Leiserson. During the
time DR.. Leiserson was chairman
of the Railway Mediation Board,
DR.. Mills was frequently called to
serve as referee in disputes over
Interpretation of employee contracts.
Arbitrated Clothing Industry.
From 1919 to 1923 DR.. Mills was
chairman of the Board of Arbitra-
ton in the mems clothing industry
in Chicago.
He is native of Paoli, Ind. Much
of his life as an economist and
an educator has been spent teach
ing at the Universities of Arkansas,
Stanford, Kansas and Chicago.
Recently he has been engaged in a
collective bargaining study for the
Twentieth Century Fund, a research
organization.
Several weeks ago, he was chosen
jointly by the General Motors Corp.
and C. 1. O.'s United Auto Workers
as impartial arbiter under the
unions new contract with G. M. C..