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...confiscatory." Last week NRA held hearings in Washington to give the dissenting operators a chance to put their case. The hearings also gave John L. Lewis a national forum where with nothing harder than words he soundly cracked the heads of his opponents. Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley appeared to represent two objecting coal operators from Illinois. Mr. Hurley gave assurance of his sympathy for the miners by telling that in his youth he himself had been a miner and a member of the mine union. When Mr. Hurley had finished, Orator Lewis rose, and speaking impressively with...
Evidently certain now that the tide has turned in favor of the deposed prison head. Wilkins does not refrain from openly attacking Hurley's methods. From Hurley's report it is apparent that "Hit and Run" went on the assumption that the first source was the most accurate, for he states that the only necessity of a second witness was to corroborate the statements of the first. On that ground Wilkins strikes his blow. "A fair or helpful investigation would have sought the facts, and not tried to bolster up from biased or unauthoritative sources...
...says Mr. Wilkins, let's have a look at Hurley's knowledge of penology. How can he investigate a prison without preparation in the subject? Hurley himself admits that he "knows nothing of the book-learning of penology" (Hurley report, P. 2) but Wilkins claims that his practical information is faulty. It consists in the participation in several criminal cases in the few years which he spent at the bar and in his acquaintance with several graduates of the state prison at Charlestown. With bland assurance. Wilkins asserts. "Obviously the conclusions of such a person are entitled to no weight...
After this tirade directed at the absent Hurley. Wilkins drops for a moment into a pitying attitude. Not a feeling of futility, for the confidence of the rest of the letter shows the supreme faith in Gill's show. The pity is, however, that this "crude, undigested, and immature assortment of rambling remarks" is bent on the destruction of the "character and brilliant accomplishments of a public official who for more than six years has struggled to give the Commonwealth honest and capable service...
...with the hope that Gill at the recent hearing has supplied all of the further their facts that Hurley saw might be necessary. Wilkins rests of the case of People vs. Gill. Gill has put up his fight and it was good enough to make the press back-water. It was strong enough to convince Hurley that he should drop into retirement for a while. It was good enough to throw the weights into the balance in favor of Gill's reinstatement as head of the prison colony and to give Wilkins confidence to blast Hurley as he does...