Pinggera v. Municipal Civil Service Commission

After some years service as a temporary appointee the petitioner in March, 1951, took an examination for qualification on the permanent civil service list and received a satisfactory rating. On September 6, 1952, he received a permanent rating as washroom attendant. On December 4, 1952, he appeared before respondent civil service commission pursuant to prior notice for inquiry as to fitness. On that inquiry petitioner testified that he had been a member of the Communist party from 1936 to 1939, at which time he had been expelled from that party for criticism of the Hitler-Stalin pact. The…