Word: saposs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Week ago Mapes Davidson attended a Washington meeting of NLRB trial examiners, said he heard NLRB Chief Economist David J. Saposs say that other things besides direct evidence should be put into board meeting records, "to show by inference that employers are fostering company-dominated unions...
...Davidson, the Saposs speech was plainly Communism. Heartsick at this revelation, homesick for Orange, he walked the streets for hours that night, next day. Third day, he resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...their heads together over a plan to strike NLRB at a more vital point: its purse. The committee slashed the 1941 Budget estimates for NLRB from $3,180,000 to $2,843,000, scratched out entirely a $45,900 appropriation for NLRB's research division, which Labor-Economist Saposs heads. Even this damage failed to satisfy Tory Smith, who served notice he would move to strike out $23,700 for clerical help in the research branch...
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