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...past ten years, New Yorkers have been hearing a lot from Mrs. Bella Dodd. A former political science teacher at Manhattan's Hunter College, she was a founder of the Redlined New York Teachers Union, in 1943 openly joined the Communist Party, and worked her way up to its national executive committee. There, she served her cause at the top of her lungs. She picketed, argued, denounced -until in 1949, the party suddenly expelled her for "fascist and anti-working-class activities...
Then the Guild brought the weird charge that the dismissals violated its contract with the News because no "sufficient cause" was given for dismissal. It also cited a state labor clause forbidding dismissal for "political beliefs." Arbitrator Paul A. Dodd, dean of Letters and Science at U.C.L.A., ruled that nobody had proved Partlow or Smith a Communist, and that anyway, that was not the issue. Dodd got to the heart of the matter: "A newspaper has. . . a quasi-public responsibility . . . In view of our nation's struggle today against the forces of Communism throughout the world, all those...
...spite of the obvious fairness of Dodd's decision, the Los Angeles Guild stuck to its anachronistic view that because the national Guild's constitution (written in 1933) specifically forbids any discrimination for political beliefs in admitting members, the Guild must therefore defend members fired for political reasons. President Smith might have done better to stand on a clear-cut principle, rather than the argument that Communists damage the paper "businesswise...
Last week Bella Dodd announced that after months of instruction from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, she had been baptized conditionally and returned to the Roman Catholic Church. She also had a warning for New Yorkers: her old teachers' union is riddled with Reds...
...some 1,000 dues-paying party members, though "not all of them were genuine, hard-bitten Communists. I am convinced that most of them would resign if they were not afraid-afraid of being vilified and smeared by the party and its agents." But genuine or not, says Mrs. Dodd, they serve the Communist conspiracy and should therefore be dismissed...