Evening star., 1940-01-11
Labor Board
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cause he had summoned as wit
nesses the IA women included
among los attorneys in the Labor
Boards review section.
Long Delays Criticized.
During the examination OF Miss
Boyls, Mr.. Toland presented men,
orandum from Mrs. Elenore M. Her.
rick, regional director Of the board
in New York, to Benedict Wolf,
then board secretary. concerning
the General Leather Products case
Mrs. Herrick wrote:
This hearing was held on Sep
tember "a. 1887 Apparently some of
your new lawyers got around to
reading the record only very recent
ly, for, although have been yelling
for an election order, on November
3 l get a request for information
that is either already in the record
or else is not involved in the ques-
ton before us.
Honestly, if we can't speed up
our whole procedure, both in the
field and in Washington, We might
better go out of business. This is
perfectly simple case-no A. F. L.
VS.. C. I. o. complications-but just
stubborn and pigheaded employer
yet we wait, wait, wait for SIM
pie little election order, and ap-
parently we are going to wait some
more. Forty four days have elapsed
since the hearing"
Miss Boyls identified penciled
memorandum she wrote to the as
sistant general counsel suggesting
that the plant be treated as a
single unit and an employe election
ordered. She realized, she wrote,
that the plant-unit finding would
be contrary to the conclusion
reached by the trial examiner.
Commented on Evidence.
Under questioning. Miss Boyls ad-
mitted review attorneys for the
board often criticized the judicial
conduct of trial examiners and board
attorneys at labor hearings.
I'VE were told to do that she
said.
Would you comment on the trial
examiners exclusion of certain evi-
dence or admission of evidence?"
IF thought it of interest to the
board or if it involved question
of policy" the witness said.
The committee counsel brought
out that in the Schwarze Electric
Co. case Miss Boyls had suggested
information not in the transcript
of the hearing be obtained by the
board. This concerned a list of
employees, their length of service
and present status.
DO you think it proper to 60 out
side the record and the stipulations
and seek additional information"
asked Mr.. Toland
In some circumstances, Miss
Boyls replied.
will you tell the committee in
what circumstances"
We'll, in this particular case I
can't see that any harm would have
been done-it would help to give a
complete general picture
Conflict Revealed.
The committee yesterday heard
evidence revealing conflict between
a trial examiner and a N. L. r. b.
regional director at hearing in
Louisiana that was as bitter as the
union employer feud involved.
The clash between the examiner,
Eugene P. Lacey, and the regional
director. Charles H. Logan of New
Orleans, occurred during the hear
ing of charges filed by an Ameri-
can Federation of Labor union
against Godchaux Sugars, Inc, and
concerned a refinery at Reserve, La.
Mr.. Lacey, interoface communi-
cations showed. told the Washing
ton Office that the regional director
had said to him he did not like the
way the hearing was going and
unless he was harder in his rulings
against the company" the proceed
ing would be halted. The trial
examiner also charged Mr.. Logan
with a dominating and domineering
attitude"
Mr.. Logan replied in a note to
Board Secretary Nathan Witt:
IF Lacy says We told him to be
harder in his rulings against the
company Lacey tells a deliberate
lie"
Records OF the board placed before
the committee showed that Trial
Examiner Lacy, who had been on a
per diem basis, no longer is with
the board.
Comment introduced.
Committee Counsel Toland brought
out that Mrs. B. M. Stern, assistant
secretary Of the board. thus COM
mented in writing on the applica-
ton of Mr.. Lacy for a job with the
board in 1897:
Believe he is very limited in
viewpoint, intellect. Nice personality.
Is all for the New Deal, processes
great sympathy with the act
He is anti-Rankin, Harrison
Representative Rankin and Senator
Harrison of MississippD. When
asked. he said with gulp that he
is proc. I. o. Says he had all
kinds of practice-civil, criminal,
State and Federal courts. He. will
not make q trial examiner"
Mr.. Toland disclosed by further
records that the embattled trial ex-