Alden K. Gray v. John W. MacY Jr., Etc.

The United States Civil Service Commission removed appellant from his position as a Post Office Department distribution clerk at Corvallis, Oregon. The Commission based its action upon a determination that the evidence offered at the administrative hearing sustained five separate charges of violation by the appellant of the Hatch Act, 53 Stat. 1148 (1939) as amended, 54 Stat. 767 (1940), 5 U.S.C.A. § 118i.

We have concluded (1) that Charge III, relating to the solicitation of Francis M. Coon to vote for the election of E. L. Callahan as Chairman of the Benton County Democratic Party Central…