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He Ini Radio News Service
6/5/46
HIGH COURT OVERRULES CONGRESS IN FIRING FCC EMPLOYEES
Congress finally met with defeat in its efforts to dis¬ charge three Government employees, charged with subversive activit¬ ies when the Supreme Court held the action unconstitutional Monday.
The three were Robert Morse Lovett, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands and afterward Executive Assistant to the Governor of the Islands; Goodwin B. Watson and William E. Dodd, Jr., both attached to the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of the Federal Communications Commission.
In its opinion the Supreme Court accused Congress of pass¬ ing a "bill of attainder" against the three. This, as defined by the Supreme Court in the past, is "a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a Judicial trial”.
The Congressional fight against these men started when the Dies Committee charged in 1943 that various subversives were in Government service. On the floor of the House Martin Dies of Texas attacked thirty-nine Individuals as "irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats” and affiliates of Communistfront or¬ ganizations. He named Messrs. Lovett, Watson and Dodd.
Subsequently Congress attached to an appropriation bill a prohibition on payment of salaries to the three men. President Roosevelt, James L. Fly, Chairman of the Federal Communications Com¬ mission and Secretary of Interior Ickes protested this action as un¬ constitutional and an unwarranted encroachment upon the authority of the executive and Judicial branches of the Government. Despite the action, the employees remained at work. They sued for back pay for this work and the Court of Claims awarded them $2,158,
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OFFICIAL WASHINGTON TO SEE LOUIS-CONN BOUT BY TELEVISION
Plans have been completed by the National Broadcasting Co. for a special television demonstration in Washington of the Joe LousBilly Conn prize fight to be held in Yankee Stadium on the evening of June 19th, according to an announcement made last week by Frank M. Russell, NBC Vice-President.
The demonstration will be witnessed by high Government of¬ ficials, including members of Congress, to show recent advances in the television art as well as the special technique developed in pro¬ gramming, particularly sporting events. The telecast will be brought to Washington by means of the A. T. & T. coaxial cable which inaug¬ urated service between Washington and New York on February 12th. The event will be staged at the Statler Hotel.
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