New Team for NLRB

Franklin Roosevelt has at last cleared out the radicals from the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, for the first time, the Board was completely manned by men who have no social axes to grind.

NLRB has been racked by internal squabbles from the first. In its early days it was attacked by businessmen as prolabor, radical and Red. Gradually it took on a mellower coloration, acquired more tempered wisdom. The hot light of publicity passed it by. Its personnel changed. Finally the only charter member left was Edwin Seymour Smith, who was outvoted and hamstrung by William Morris Leiserson and elderly Harry Alvin Millis, middle-of-the-roaders both. When Smith's term expired, the President did not reappoint him.

Instead, Mr. Roosevelt tapped young (35), Boston-born Gerard Denis Reilly, for the past four years Solicitor of the Department of Labor. Sponsor was his boss, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Harvard-trained, like his predecessor, Reilly is a devout Catholic, no radical. Last week "Gerry" Reilly was sworn in. Observers predicted that henceforth NLRB, for the first time, would pull together as a team.

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