Speech #760154915

The President appointed a Board which conceived it to be its duty to drive all workers into industrial unions. adherents of which had contributed more than a million dollars to the political success of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The National Labor Relations Board selected. at a salary of $2.700 per year. a Hungarian woman. 27 years of age. who came to the United States in 1929. was naturalized in 1935. with a husband drawing a salary of $4.600 a year in another Government department. to act as a reviewing attorneyto read. consider. thousands of pages of testimony and then report to the Board her conclusions as to the decisionsaffecting the jobs of thousands of men and the financial existence of great corporationswhich should be made by the Board. The Board. notwithstanding the provision found in section 4. subdivision (a). of the act creating it. which provides thatNothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the Board to appoint individuals for the purpose of conciliation or mediation (or for statitsical work). where such service may be obtained from the Department of LaborHired the Russianborn Saposs. as full of communistic ideas as a vagabond dog is of fleas. to make investigation outside the record and report to investigators. reviewing attorneys. and the Board itself his conclusions and interpretation of testimony given before the Board. The procedure is in violation of every idea of fair play and of justice inherent in every American.