LAUNCH COURT TEST OF STATE TAX BODY OUSTERS
Launch Court Test of State Tax Body Ousters Tern porary Restrain ing Order Holds Up Dis-missals A suit to determine the legality of the dismissal of 61 employes from the state tax department will...
...The orders were obtained by Atty...
...Employe Group To Start Suit Roy E. Kublsla...
...At the same lime Judge Hoppmann approved a temporary restraining order preventing dismissal of the employes until hearing has been held on the order lo .show cause...
...John E. Martin, in a telegram to U. S. Sens...
...After the U. S. supreme court 'tiled last year that the federal government could tax the salaries of state employes If the state were allowed to tax the Income of federal workers, congress passed legislation exempting these state employes from any liability for taxes of past years, Martin said...
...It is the failure to exempt this class of workers that wc rue protesting against," Martin said...
...Robert M. La Follette (P), Madison, and Alexander Wiley (R), Chippewa Falls, protested against the federal government's proposed collection of back income taxes from state employes paid directly or indirectly from federal funds...
...The petition states that the dismissals were "neither legal nor warranted" and wrre made in disregard of the rule that civil service employes must be "laid off in inverse order of their employment...
...Elmer E. Barlow, stale tax commissioner, is named as defendant...
...Florence L. Wen-zel, Mrs...
...They will leave state service Apr, 1. Kubista said his association was going to the conrls on behalf of all of lis members not only to challenge dismissal of employeS because they were married, but also to find out what civil service stains nil employes of the tax commission possess, | Protests V. S. Back Taxes on State Workers Atty...
...Launch Court Test of State Tax Body Ousters Tern porary Restrain ing Order Holds Up Dis-missals A suit to determine the legality of the dismissal of 61 employes from the state tax department will be heard before Circuit Judge A. C. Hoppmann here next Friday...
...The act, however, did not exempt those state employes from past liability who were paid directly or indirectly from federal monies, Martin declared...
...In applying for the: writ of mandamus, Juergens alleged that the dismissal of the fil employes was contrary to state civil service laws and was ordered for "mere political reasonS.'' The writ demands thai Barlow restore each of the petitioners to their respective permanent employment...
...Minnie Klumb...
...Judge Hoppmann last week signed an order to show cause why a writ of mandamus restraining the tax commission from discharging a group of Milwaukee employes should not be issued...
...In his telegram Martin said the plan "works a very considerable injustice and represents an arbitrary and unreasonable classification whicn is out of accord with the state of Isw exlsitlng at the time of the passage of the act exempting from back Inxes the salaries of other state employes...
...The petitioners are Mrs...
...executive secretary of the Wisconsin State Employes association, announced last week his association would take the dismissals of 33 married women from the tax department to the courts...
...Mrr Helen K. Pilger, Ennis Cleveland and George M. Duffy...
...Carl H. Juergens, Milwaukee, counsel for five Milwaukee employes, who have received notices of dismissal effective today...
...The married women, together with 28 other employes were dismissed by Elmer Barlow, tax commissioner, In a reorganization of the department...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
