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...Lewis' dinner was ruined by baldish Morris Watson, vice president of C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild. He introduced, and the convention passed, a resolution denouncing "the press generally, and certain newspapers especially," for their coverage of the convention. This put the blame not on the publishers but on the reporters present˜some of them Mr. Watson's own union constituents. It accused them of trying to reate dissension in C. I. O. by reporting its own unmistakable dissensions at the Convention...
...because the resolution was aimed at the New York Times'?, fair and able Louis Stark, who by example has generally done more than any other one man to raise the level of labor reporting. The Lewis dinner was "off the record." But plenty was said to him and Guild President Heywood Broun...
...TIME'S figure) and control the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the American League for Peace and Democracy, the unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
Notable was the comparatively small size of the pieces on exhibit (85 out of 109 under 30 inches high). If the Guild's outdoor exhibition was meant to show Sculpture for the Garden, this was apparently meant to show Sculpture for the Home. Sculptor William Zorach's Youth won a great deal of admiration for its clean-cut and subtle modeling; Robert Cronbach's well-constructed little group Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish...