The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
NAM, ABA, Plot To Take Over Federal Agencie!

When this Board screened the
qualification of NLRB trial exam
iners it came up with the follow
ing rulings:
OF the NLRB's 81 top examiners
26 were found either unqualified or
rated so low as to endanger their
jobs. These are all men who work
ed as trial examiners before the
passage of the Hartley law.
On the other hand, II of the IL
examiners appointed since the pas
sage of TIL, men with much less
experience than the Wagner act
veterans, were okayed.
When members of anti-union
NLRB General Counsel Robert
Denham's own staff applied for ex-
aminers' ratings II of them were
approved and only 5 turned down.
Most of those who qualified were
TIL appointees. All of those re-
jected had been with the NLRB
during Wagner act days.
But, when 10 assistants to the
members of the NLRB proper ap-
piled for examiners jobs, despite
the fact that their experience in
judging cases is much greater than
is that of Denham's office force,
not a one of the 10 was approved.
The veteran trial examiners had
listed an old foe of Denham's,
former Chief Examiner Frank
Bloom as a reference. The McFar-
land Board didn't ask for his ad-
vice in a single case.
Denham, on the other hand, was
frequently consulted by the Nc
Farland panel in drawing up it's
specifications. So was turncoat ex-
NLRB member Gerard Reilly, dub
bed by pro-T-H senator, as "co-
author. of the TaftrHartley law"
and counsel for the printing indus
try in its union-busting attempts.
Both Reilly and Denham are re-
ported to have recently declared
that this is the "last chance" for a
"house-cleaning of the misfts."
In addition to cleaning out" in
cumbent able and impartial exam
iners from the ID agencies, the
Mcfarland Smith Henderson team
wrote, and published in the ABA
review, list of qualifications for
future government trial examiners.
This amazing job sheet frankly en-
couraged ABA heads to get their
proteges into these key spots while
the getting as good. Virtually all
experience a government attorney
could get working in subordinate
post was ruled irrelevant" About
the only experience that would
qualify a man for a US trial ex-
aminer's job under the Mcfarland
system is corporation law practice.
A published report of the Nc
Farland cabal declares that it has
sought generally apt, able, and
temperamentally fitted examiners
not specialists in particular sub
jects. The applicants must show
conclusively that they are persons
of judicial temperament and poise.
"The application of these direc-
tions," Mcfarland continued, "has
largely required judgement in in
1ividual cases involving an infinite
variety of personal qualities, attri-
Outes and combinations thereof"
Among these personal qualifica-
tions," the disqualified US trial ex-
aminers charge, are anti-New Deal
ism, anti-unionism, and some rel
gious faith other than Jewish.
The McFarland-NAM-ABA raid
On the government has been under
off the record" attack in Wash
ngton for several months now.
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt has
Joined union representatives in pro-
testing to the White House and
the Civil Service Commission. A
investigation is pos
sible. For the moment at least this
scheme to make government agen-
lies to stooges of big business
seems to have been defeated.
1t is a grim warning to the labor
to farmers and consum-
,rs of the length to which the
NAM crowd is prepared to go in
is attempt to make mockeries of
avs written in the public interest '
~ gaining control of key govern '
nent administrative posts. {
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