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...Gordon and Barnet the committee turned to a more cooperative witness, Charles S. Lewis, now news director of WCAX radio and TV stations in Burlington, Vt. Lewis freely admitted that he had been a Communist for "several" months in 1937, said he joined while at the Eagle after Newspaper Guild organizers convinced him that "as an active member of the Guild, I should be a member of the Communist Party, which . . . was making the actual decisions in the Guild." He broke with the party during a 1937 strike at the Eagle, he said, because he was asked to take part...
Next day the Senate committee called another Timesman, Ira Henry Freeman, a reporter for 25 years. Freeman told how in 1938 he and his wife (once a reporter herself) were persuaded by Milton Kaufman, then executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, that the Communist Party was the "leading influence" in the Guild. But at his first meeting of the New York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists...
...week's end Senator Eastland recessed his hearings, with words of praise for the "cooperation" of the newsmen. The New York Newspaper Guild then got into the act, announced that it will fight for the reinstatement of Gordon and Barnet. The-Guild will go along with newspapers that fire staffers who are-or have been-Communists within six months of being questioned by a legislative committee. But it contended that the Times and News could not, under their contracts with the Guild, discharge staffers for pleading the Fifth Amendment, thus "exercising a constitutional right...
...midst of the furor over newsmen who were members of the Communist Party (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the 27,302-member American Newspaper Guild last week took a clear-cut stand on a problem that has been worrying it for years. At its 22nd annual convention in Albany, N.Y., the Guild unanimously voted not to defend the employment rights of any member who is an admitted or proved Communist Party member...
...Said the Guild declaration: "The A.N.G. and its locals need not resist the dismissal of any employee who has admitted [party membership] in an open hearing by a competent governmental agency [or] who has finally been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a member of the Communist Party." The Guild's action, which applies to anyone who has been a member of the party within six months of being fired, takes the place of a proposed change in the Guild's constitution barring Communists from membership altogether (TIME, Aug. 16). "If anyone wants...