Globe

This is an appeal by the county of Los Angeles, the board of supervisors and the superintendent of charities from a judgment in a mandamus proceeding ordering them to grant petitioner Arthur Globe, a temporary county employee, a full hearing in respect to his discharge from county employment.

On March 28, 1955, Arthur Globe was employed on a “non-eligible temporary” basis as a social worker in the Department of Charities. On May 1, 1955, he became a “temporary, eligible” employee in the same position continuing as such until May 2, 1956, the date of his discharge from county service. On April 20, 1956, petitioner, having been duly subpoenaed, appeared before a Subcommittee on Un-American Activities of the United States House of Representatives, and after having been sworn refused to answer certain questions relating to past and present knowing membership in the Communist Party, his familiarity with and membership in a certain “John Reid Club of the Communist Party,” his acquaintance with the activities of any persons known to him to be members of that club and whether during his service in the armed forces' he had been, or was then, a member of the Communist Party. Petitioner…