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Memo for the Director. ~20-- 5-12-36. taxpayer's suit brought by Law Virector Alfred Clum. The city contends Wolf's promotion by former Safety Director Lavelle Nov. 9, 1935, was illegal because he did not take a civil service examination and there was no eligibility list. His reduction to the rank of sergeant is asked, with a salary cut from $2,746 to $2,613 a year." Harold He Burton was recently elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohie. The Vleveland News dated October 26, 1935 wives a resume of the activities of ir. Eurton and cites the fact that he is credited with an impressive record for public service. 2 The Cleveland News dated October 29, 1935 is quoted as follows: 3 "Mr, Burton promised there will be no politics in the police department whén “he is Cleveland's chief executive." Burton is quoted as followss "Your cheice is between the renewal of an administra- tion which came into office on the promise of Iaw enforce- ment and under which a grand jury found that law enforce- ment was interfered with by politics. . tt is absolutely necessary that there be no politics, political pressure or political groups having control over any individual in the police department. Every man 1) the . police department will know before election that so far as I am concerned, politics bas no place in the police department." After Burton had been elected Mayor of Cleveland by the sreatest majority ever accorded a candidate for that position, on May 5, 1936 the Cleveland Plain Dealer gave space to the followings "BARE BURTON ATTEAPTS TO USE JOB WHIP," The said paper than states: "An attempt by Mayor Harold H. Burton to whip Republican councilmen into support of his stand on the aporopriation ordinance by withdrawing their patronage was revealed yes- terday at a hearing before the Civil Service Commission. Councilman thomas F.MicCafferty testified that he and