United Press, "Conflict of Interest Figure Would Resign" (1956)

A newspaper clipping of a United Press story from Trenton, May 1956. C. George Krueger, the suspended New Jersey Labor Department official, had submitted his resignation, but Governor Robert B. Meyner would not accept it while a civil service hearing on charges of illegally taking a $1,500 fee from Thomas A. Edison, Inc., for a noise-abatement survey was pending. The story said a search of his home had found three filing cabinets of state records and other state office equipment.

What it shows

Krueger, as deputy commissioner, was the official to whom Raybestos-Manhattan's Passaic plant wrote about its labor department safety orders in 1954 (letter of June 3, 1954). This clipping and The New York Times's report of his suspension were kept with those papers.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

"Conflict of Interest Figure would Resign." Article states that C. George Krueger submitted his resignation but that it was not accepted by Governor Meyner. Krueger was suspended from his position with the State Labor Department for accepting money from Thomas A. Edison, Inc. for performing a noise-abatement survey. Government files and equipment were found in Krueger's home.

Related documents

• The New York Times, "Jersey Suspends 'Survey' Official" (1956)
• W. E. Perkins to C. George Krueger Requesting More Time on Orders 7034 and 7113 (1954)

About this copy

This is document 05818 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.