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Show MURDOGK RESENTS COUNSEL'S TACTICS DURING NLRB HEARING Utahn Voices Criticism of Handling Board Attor-. Attor-. ney as Witness; Calls Probe Unfair WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) Representative Abe Murdock (D., Utah), already on record with a complaint of "unfairness" against the house committee investigating the Wagner labor act and its administration, told the committee counsel today that "there's a lot of things you do that I resent." Murdock, a committeeman, Inter-1 rupted the attorney, Edmund M. I Toland, when Toland showed dis-1 pleasure at one of the replies given by today's witness, Mrs. Jullous Schlezinger. Toland was questioning Mrs. Schlezinger, 29-year-old attorney, in the review division of the labor board, as to how she could summarize sum-marize thousands of words of testimony tes-timony for the board without stating stat-ing findings. "I simply state what the witnesses wit-nesses said, without stating any conclusions or findings," the witness wit-ness testified. "I'm not asking about conclusions" conclu-sions" Toland began, but Murdock Mur-dock interrupted hotly: "It seems to me the witness' answer was responsive to the question, ques-tion, and, in fairness to her and to the committee, she should be permitted to finish it." "I'm not trying to stop her," Toland retorted. "I resent the implication" im-plication" "And there's a lot of things you do that I resent," Murdock retorted. retort-ed. He ignored Toland's suggestion sugges-tion that Murdock owed him an apology. Chairman Howard W. Smith (D., (Continued on Faro TnrM) (Column On l NLRB HEARING STIRS MURDOCK (CoatbiMd treat Psci On) Va.) ruled that the exchange be stricken from the record. Toland questioned the witness closely as to why the labor board had decided in a case Involving the American Radiator company's plant at Litchfield, 111., that the company had locked out employes because of their union activity, although al-though the board's trial examiner had decided otherwise and the board Itself had reached a tentative tenta-tive decision In accord with his findings. He asked also whether Mrs. Schlezlnger had called to the board's attention testimony that Jack Davis, a field examiner for the board, had told company employes em-ployes he was "working for the C I O" and had asked them to testify that the plant had locked them out. "Yes, I did," she said. Merits Unaffected Asked what Chairman J. Warren War-ren Madden of the board had had to say about the matter, the witness wit-ness said she did not remember. 'But the board decided," she continued, con-tinued, "that the merits of the case had not been affected by anything Mr. Davis may have said." Toland asked Mrs. Schlezlnger again whether she reached any conclusions In her own mind about the evidence and testimony she reviews, re-views, and coupled with his query this question: "Do you pass on the credibility of witnesses?" "Only when It seems to be clear to me beyond question that one is telling the truth or not the truth," the witness replied. "So It Is fact that you do make findings and conclusions?" "Only to that limited extent." Earlier today, Murdock called for an Immediate change in committee com-mittee tactics, stating that the investigation in-vestigation was unfair and onesided one-sided In many Instances. ' |