Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942) [PAGE 5]

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the University and puts in jeopardy alike the interests of students and citizens of the State (Pet., pp. 7-9); 4. On May 7, 1942, the respondent Barrett, then Attorney General of Illinois, informed respondent Lueder, then Auditor of Public Accounts of Illinois, that on April 22, 1942, he had accepted the resignation of petitioner Johnson "as an Assistant Attorney General and so-called University Counsel for the University of Illinois," and on May 7, 1942 that of petitioner Hodges "as Assistant to the University Counsel"; and on the same date respondent Barrett issued an order to respondent Lueder that no payments shall be made subsequent to the dates abovementioned" to either of petitioners Hodges or Johnson (Pet., p. 21). On the same day he wrote identical letters to the President of the University and the President of the Board of Trustees (Pet., pp. 19, 20). 5. That at the time when these orders and directives were written, relators Hodges and Johnson were employees of the University of Illinois, that petitioner Hodges had been an employee on the staff of the University since 1937, and that relator Johnson had been such an employee continuously since 1926; and that petitioner Johnson never was an Assistant Attorney General of this State either by appointment from r e spondent Barrett or from any of his predecessors in the office of Attorney General (Pet., p. 22), never was on the payroll of any Attorney General as an Assistant or otherwise, never tendered any person at any time a resignation from such a position or from that of University Counsel, and that petitioner Hodges never tendered a resignation as Assistant University Counsel to respondent Barrett or to any other person whatever (Pet., pp. 21, 22) ;

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6. That on May 29, 1942, respondent Lueder wrote the Comptroller of the University and informed him