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...already Justice Roberts was getting into the case of Newshawk Morris Watson, discharged by the Associated Press for union activity. Presently it appeared that Newshawk Watson had won because AP was engaged in interstate commerce and collective bargaining did not interfere with the Constitutional Freedom of the Press. On the latter point Justice Sutherland dissented on behalf of the four conservatives of the Court. But the major question of whether the Act was valid for ordinary industries was not settled, nor was it settled by the next case. This time Mr. Roberts read again, a unanimous decision, ordering the Virginia...
...next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...
...columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because we are dissatisfied with your work, you are dissatisfied with...
...subsidiaries was sold to the public, an activity which eventually led to the Federal indictments (TIME, Nov. 18, Still loyal to the boys who had the world by the tail, Professor Fisher ap peared as a witness in their behalf, drawing from energetic Assistant U. S. Attorney William Power Maloney a challenge as to his economic competency. Mr. Fisher, he told the jury, was a "dusty old academic," "a slightly befuddled expert." Shown news stories of Roger Ward Babson's prediction of the 1929 crash, which were publicly pooh-poohed by Mr. Fisher at the time, the white-goateed...
...roster of prices (with 1930-32 as 100) was at 68.51 in March 1933, at 129.96 last October, and by last week was up to 144.62. The Associated Press compiles its own index of 35 commodities for its member newspapers. From a depression low of 41.44 (February 1933) the AP index last week had risen...