Show washington snapshots hy by james preston breaton the deepest darkness proceeds prec ceda eeds the dawn bear that statement in mind otherwise thebe the serious rions rather than the ridiculous aspects become paramount in the action of the national labor relations board in a case at catlettsburg kentucky briefly here Is what the labor lioard la 18 trying to do find the american mill company ARM 00 guilty of violating the labor act because of its refusal to co hire a man and to force the company to pay this athla young man back wages for two years for work he be would have performed IV IF the corn com puny had hired him when he applied for a job it Is all as simple as that did not hire tho the young nian the labor board thinks it should lave have and contends tho the company should pay the young man for work never preformed lit ill malting making this demand the board passed over these questions what amount to pay the young man inan aou would I 1 d hla his pay have lit in two years and if so BO how much of a raise would he have earned what about his social security the charge brought by the labor board la Is that ARMCO refused to hire the young man because his father was a member of the that its action in refusing to hire him was designed to intimidate men from joining the CIO and that it therefore constitutes a discrimination and interference with the alie right of self organization here Is an excerpt f from rom the official report of the catlettsburg case trial examiner basket Is it the boards conten contention altion that harold kirkham Is seeking employment and the board Is seeking an order directing the respondent to hire harold kirkman if you yon sustain the allegations of tho the complaint in regard to harold kirkman mr gordon labor board attorney W we are seeking relief to the full extent of the national labur labor relations act for harold kirkman we are seeking affirmative relief for harold kirkman because of the discrimination against him mr attorney do I 1 understand the boards attorneys contend that they can seek an order asking this company to hire harold kirkman la Is that it mr gordon and if the board finds it advisable to pay harold kirman back pay for the two years he has not been employed by the company mr it if this is mr gordons interpretation of the act act wo we fire are willing to let the record stand just as it Is on hta his statement that is the most ridiculous statement I 1 ever heard we ive can have every relative of a CIO man mail offer a complaint he has hag not been employed because of his CIO relative and demand the company put him welt bick irrespective of working conditions operations the economic situ allon and because he Is a relative oj of it a CIO we must take him because otherwise we are discriminating against him if proof were ever needed for the old statement that truth Is I 1 stranger than fiction the burg case affords it HERB AND THERE electricity mix with water any brt bot ter than oil thelpa the to find out how bow much a POWER dam on the colorado river in texas contributed to a recent flood I 1 the district of columbia lant big enough for the federal govern ment any more in addition to 11 15 buildings which it rents front from private owners in the D 0 the government has leased square feet of space in baltimore 33 35 miles away for social security board workers |