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...advisers. He was said to give too ready an ear to mandates of the politicians. Last week, however, this same President turned around and spoke out twice for himself. He defied the American Federation of Labor (2,933,545 votes) by appointing his friend William Nuckles Doak to be Secretary of Labor. Secondly he defied Senate Floorleader Watson and many a Republican of importance by announcing that he would soon submit to the Senate for ratification the protocols calling for U. S. entrance into the World Court...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...
...Brotherhood of Railway Train men is not in the A. F. of L., backbones of which are the building and printing trades unions. And it was because, like West Virginia's Doak, James John Davis had shown sympathy for the employers' side of labor disputes, that the late great President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L. gave President Harding so much opposition in Mr. Davis' appointment in 1921. President Hoover decided to conciliate the A. F. of L. and its present President William Green...
Last week President Hoover threw conciliation and consultation to the winds. Unexpectedly he issued a statement appointing Editor Doak after all. He took occasion to rebuke Mr. Green, saying: "[His] enunciation that appointments must come from one organization in fact imposes upon me the duty to maintain the principle of open and equal opportunity and freedom in appointments to public office...
...Perhaps to be Secretary of Labor: William N. Doak, not because he is a Virginian but because, as vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, he is an able representative of union labor...