Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
10 Union Officials
Revealed on Illinois
PAYROLL Under Green

D. re Asss<ssase fssss
ST. LOUIS. June 1.-The S.
Louis Post Dispatch yesterday
listed 10 Illinois union officials IL
said we're On the Illinois State
pay roll during the Republican
administration Of former Gov.
Dwight II. Green.
II also listed o former union
otnctal and the son Of an osnc.al
as on the payroll N the same
period
The newspaper also listed what
IL said vas their payroll Jobs and
salaries Among those named
their comments. II any. are In
hracketS-were:
Earl J. Mcmahon. secretary Of
the Chicago AL Building Trades
Council and a vice president Of
the Illinois Federation OF Labor.
collected s4.57s from September
/. 1914. TO August 81. ls46,
Worked the first three months as
o clerk for the superintendent Of
public instruction at sl25 a
month. and the balance Of the
time as Labor Department
investigator at $500 o month.
tMcNfahon said; You can
say ] was q liaison man between
the Department Of Labor and =
the building trades. There were
q lot OF els returning then who
wanted TO get into the building
trades. My Job was to facilitate
the work of the Department of
Labor. ! don't know what title
! had. Is that q crime? Let
them investigate I'll be here
any time
Sem Got S3oe . Month.
Carl Soderstrom, son Of Reuben
@. Soderstrom. president Of the
State Federation Of Labor. The
ost-Dispateh said young Sober
stron took O State job In January.
Ils47. and collected $500 q month
until last January 81 when he was
dropped from the payroll.
tCarl declined to comment
John II. Walker. Springfield.
president Of the State Federation
Of labor during the 1905: Labor
Department field investigator ut
$500 o month from September /.
|l945. to December 81, fe48. Total
81. 900.
walker was not available for
comment-a
Joseph Hodges. president OF the
Peoria Building and Construction
Trade Council. labor conciliator at
$3.50 O month from May /. l94s
to January is, l949.
Hodges said. II was not an
ofIlcer Of the union at the
time I held this State Job.
Under union law you can not
even be q delegate to the con-
vention II you hold q con-
ciliator's job. and ! had declined
TO run for office because ! knew
! was going to get this State
job. I'm very proud Of my re-
cord as conciliator.")
Was Field Investigator.
Jack B. Ellis. business agent.
Kewanee Painters Local No. 757
and Carpenters Local 1854: field in
vestigator for the Labor Depart
ment. $2l3 monthly from March
!. 1912 to January Is. le48. for
a total Of $l3.ll0.
ellis said. II was on the pay
roll, but the amount Of money
Is wrong. worked all the
time ] was on the payroll. try
ing to help out during the war"
He added he did not have the
amounts .available)
Ray Collins. Batavia. business
agent Of the Kane County Build
ing and Common Laborers' Local
l76, who started work as a iaborer
at Geneva Training School for
Girls In October. l947. and was
paid $3,805 from l948. He Is still
lemployed there.
collins said. We'll. I'm In
construction and maintenance
labor and the job is. therefore.
legitimate. earn my money
at union scales and the union
trade. I'm not q political ap-
pointee at all and / take no
political action Of any kind"
Collins Job was one Of four
characterized by the Post-Dis-
patch as bona fide.)