Unconventional Being: Poems by Guy Farmer

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Loftus, Joseph A. "President Acts to Enhance Labor Secretary's Prestige." New York Times. October 12, 1953.

Moody, John P. "Coal Industry Advisors Meet As Talks Continue." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 16, 1974. That commitment to give young people a decent job and try and give them the enthusiasm to enjoy what they do is key because they have got to be the farm managers of the future." During Farmer's tenure on the NLRB, a major controversy broke out over who should be NLRB General Counsel.The Farmer board's ruling in the area of "hot cargo" led to significant legislative changes in the NLRA by 1959. After Farmer joined the board, the NLRB issued three major new decisions regarding the anti-communist affidavits. These proved to be the last the board would issue. On October 17, 1953, The Farmer-led board issued a decision which revoked the representation rights of union whose officers had made false anti-communist oaths. [143] Eight days later, the Farmer board announced it would not conduct representative elections for any union whose officers had been indicted for not filing or filing false anti-communist affidavits. [144] Finally, on May 31, 1954, the Farmer board denied the protection of the NLRA to the International Fur & Leather Workers Union after its president, Ben Gold, was indicted for perjury for filing false anti-communist affidavits. It was the first time the NLRB had denied the protection of the law to an entire international union. [145] Although a federal court enjoined the NLRB from disqualifying the Fur & Leather Workers in July 1954, [146] another federal court upheld the NLRB's authority to question the veracity of anti-communist affidavits. [147] This latter decision led the Farmer board to withdraw the protection of the act from a second international union, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. [148] In April 1955, the Farmer board disqualified a third international union, the UE. [149] With most Republicans lukewarm about Beeson and some actually thinking of abstaining or voting against him, Eisenhower began lobbying conservative Southern Democrats to support the nomination. [7] :328 On January 29, Senators H. Alexander Smith (chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare) and Barry Goldwater then publicly questioned the truthfulness of Beeson's January 20 response about the newspaper article. [51] The newspaper, the San Jose Mercury, said it stood by its story. [47] Beeson then made the surprising request on January 30 to speak again before the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee. [54] The request was granted. [54] Democratic Senator James E. Murray said Beeson's integrity had been called into question, and all six Democrats on the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee said that new revelations that Farmer and Beeson had a pre-existing relationship indicated Beeson would not be independent of Farmer's influence. [47] But during a six-hour hearing on February 2, Beeson admitted that the newspaper article was correct. [50] When directly asked if he had submitted a letter of resignation, he said he had not but had given an oral resignation. [50] He then admitted that he had not stopped making contributions to his company's pension plan, and implied he was really on a leave of absence. [50] [55] He also reversed his January 22 testimony and said Farmer had not recommended him to Eisenhower at all. [50] His revelations led to an adjournment so that Paul L. Davies, president of Food Machinery & Chemical Corporation, could be brought in to testify. [50]

Milius, Peter. "Railroads Hit With Layoffs; Talks Continue as Nationwide Coal Strike Begins." Washington Post. November 12, 1974 Rabinowitz, Victor. Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996.Guy has contributed enormously to Red Tractor during one of the most difficult periods facing British agriculture. About 1936, Farmer married Rose Marie Smith of Hamlin, West Virginia. Her father, Jacob. D. Smith, was a noted local attorney and public prosecutor. The couple had one child, Guy Otto Farmer Jr., born in 1941. Their marriage ended in divorce. [6] Mr King lives at Lexham, near Swaffham, but his home unit, from which the business grew, is based at Guist, near Fakenham. Loftus, Joseph A. "Labor Policies and Politics Collide at the White House." New York Times. September 28, 1953. N.L.R.B. Disqualifies Union of Smelters." New York Times. February 3, 1955; "Smelters Union Fights Ban." New York Times. February 10, 1955.