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...Case. The Guild appealed to the National Labor Relations Board which summoned the AP to a hearing with Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School as Trial Examiner. John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate, counsel for the AP, denied the jurisdiction of the NLRB, made no argument as to the facts of Watson's discharge. Clark ruled the AP must reinstate Watson because he had been 'discharged for Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted and the AP...
...Decision. This week, by a five-to-four decision, the minority differing only on the point about Freedom of the Press, the AP lost on all three counts. Having refused to argue whether Watson's work had actually become unsatisfactory, the AP after the NLRB hearings, had made its bed and had to lie in it. "We therefore accept as established," said the Supreme Court, "that the AP did not . . . discharge Watson because of unsatisfactory service but... for his activities in connection with the newspaper Guild...
Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...
...petitioner is at liberty whenever occasion may arise, to exercise its undoubted right to sever his relationship for any cause that seems to it proper, save only as a punishment for, or discouragement of, such activities as the Act declares permissible. The business of the AP is not immune from regulation because it is an agency of the press. The publisher of a newspaper has no special immunity from the application of general laws...
...AP Attorney Davis was rebuffed on his freedom of the press argument he was overwhelmed on his claim, startling to lay minds, that the far-flung AP is not engaged in interstate commerce. His brilliant legal argument, his citation of prior cases in which the Supreme Court had ruled that such businesses as insurance, buying and selling bills of exchange and reporting credit standings, are not interstate commerce even though they operate interstate, were swept aside in a ruling that "interstate communication of a business nature, whatever the means of such communication, is interstate commerce regulatable by Congress under...