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Labor Board.
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Porter identified her notes on various
cases, including the Fisher Body
hearing
Board Relies on Summaries.
Mrs Porter said she made analyses
of certain evidence in these cases.
She identified mass of penciled
notes she made in studying the
transcripts of evidence in her cases,
and these were made committee ex-
! hibitS
LAS matter of fact" asked Rep
resentative Halleck, Republican, of
Indiana you, as a review attorney,
determined to large extent what
the board did in these cases?"
That's hard question to answer, -
Mrs. Porter said. She added that
the board did rely largely on the
summaries of evidence which its re-
view attorneys made.
you do necessarily have to de-
termine the credibility of wit
nesses?" the committee member
pressed.
well, somebody has to. I don't
think I ever did without calling the
boards attention to it and pointing
out that portion OF the transcript"
Identifies Memorandum.
Mrs. Porter yesterday identified a
| memorandum she wrote to her SUI
perior commenting on the findings
of the trial examiner in the Lady
Ester case. She disagreed with
them in many particulars.
mo reference is made" she wrote,
under date of August II. 1898, Ito
testimony by a field examiner for
the board that Morris Sadock Of
fered him a bribe to procure an
election. The boards attorney
recommended that the matter be
referred to the Department of JUS
tice, but the trial examiner did not
so recommend"
At another point in her memo
randum Mrs. Porter said:
Il have not referred to forged bal
lots of the association presumably
The Lady Ester Employees Associa-
ton, a company union. The
boards attorney recommended that
testimony in this connection be re-
ierred to the Department of Justice.
The trial examiner does not so
recommend.
In a penciled note accompanying
the typed memorandum, Mrs. Porter
wrote:
THE trial examiner said the re-
spondent (the company tried to
bribe him by sending underwear to
his wife"
The review attorney concluded:
AFTER talking to him (the trial
examiner) I think my view of the
evidence correct when it differs
from his
Mrs. Porter also held:
THE testimony was contradictory
with respect to almost every find
ing, but I thought it would be cum
bersome and unnecessary to say so
IN every instance"
She added: Neither the charge
nor the complaint alleges an unfair
labor practice, strike or discrimina-
ton after the strike. Nor did any
one testify that the strike resulted
from unfair labor practices. How
ever, think it is correct to infer
from the circumstances evidence
that 1t did. 1t is not clear whether
or not all strikers were reinstated
after the strike"
Order Violation Show Attempted.
Mr.. Toland sought to show that
Mrs. Porter had violated N. L. r. B.
orders by going over the informal
report of the trial examiner and
by talking to him and to others
concerned in the case, instead of
confining herself to a review of the
transcript of testimony and the
formal recommendations of the ex-
aminer.
Mrs. Porter said she was a Vas
sar graduate, studied In Europe.
taught at Colorado College and was
graduated in law at Columbia in
1892. She was admitted to the
Illinois bar and engaged in prac-
tice involving labor relations cases.
Coming to Washington in 1888, she
was legal secretary to the general
counsel of p. w. A. and later an
attorney for the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, the Re-
settlement Administration and be-
- Established 1895