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accOTulHS 10 LOchey. FL
This course of events was. evil
dent throughout the hearing. AL
ways when Williams was accused
of something, when he was given
some other job, when he was moved
around, it was done without any
consultation with him or anyone, or
any questioning as to reasons; arbi-
trary decisions were made without
any probing as to what caused cer-
tain situations to arise.
BAD SITUATION ADMITTED
That a bad situation has existed
and still exists was evident from testi-
mony by industrial consultant George
Neumayer of EBASCO Services,
when he said he was called in be-
cause there had been a breakdown
of communications in the Highway
Department the breakdown was
prevalent or | would not have been
there. He said "the team effort
is broken down too much now''.
Olsen cross examined Neumayer
about his recommendation to abolish
Williams job because it was being
duplicated by the pre-construction
engineering department, asking him,
'Ts there any good reason why they
should know cost of right-of-way in
Reconstruction" Neumayer said it
would take a few days to analyze
that. Yet it was this man's recon-
mendation that this department be
allowed to keep the books Will.
liams had been keeping, and that
Williams job be abolished!
Neumayer denied that he was an
deficiency expert. He said all of
them had Committed suicide in
1922. Arnold Rieder of the Legis-
lative Council asked him if "there
might be the same difference be-
tween an. industrial consultant and
an efficiency expert as there was be-
tween a janitor and space engi-
neer"
This presumably was jibe at the
demotion of Williams from program
engineer to "space engineer.
Neumayer explained the process
of conducting an industrial consult
ants job, which prompted the COM
ment at the close of the Thursday
morning session by an onlooker, eff |
I had a band of fat sheep I wouldn't |
hire a wolf to come in and see how
fast they could run before they
dropped dead".
Heart attacks have not been un-
common among highway department
DID HIS JOB WELL
A. w. Greiner, Williams immediate
said Williams did his job
we'll. and he did a number of differ
snt jobs.
He testified that he was not
consulted when Quinnell ordered
another department to duplicate
the work Williams was doing or
questioned as to why he couldn't
get the material out Immediately
when he was requested to. He said
it was the only time to his knowl-
edge such a thing had occurred as
Williams had always been cooper
ative.
When Harry L. (for Lucifer) '
Burns testified. he told of calling !
Williams and Earl Parsons before
he commission at the time of the
crash program" to see what they
could do to alleviate what was
ermed "a bottleneck" in the pro-
ram.
,URNS HAZY ON SPECIFICS
The "crash program" was being
ushed at the request of the National
administration and Bureau of Pub
c Roads to alleviate the depression
nd get men working according to
'urns. He said employees were going 4
0 have to adjust themselves to new
onditions and could not follow pro- 9
edures of 20 years ago. They dis !
ussed these plans with Parsons and !
Villains and because Williams atti- :
lde was negative" the commission !,
-as ready to fire him. Burns could
OF recall any specifics of the mega >
we" attitude.
Burns said this was considered on "
ne recommendation of Roy Sorrels, r
new commission member. He said, c
owever. that Quinnell would not n