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Before the American Newspaper Guild came into being, reporters and editors took what pay they could get and envied the higher wages of printers and pressmen. Most of them still do, but in the past four years 107 daily newspapers have been forced to sign Guild contracts or to post pledges of minimum wages & hours. To make these gains, the Guild has had to organize 15,000 editorial and business office workers, finance 17 strikes. Present effort of the C. I. O. Guild is twofold: 1) unionization of all except A. F. of L. mechanical department workers, and 2) universal...
Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
Last week the Administration's lustiest legal aides, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, joined a defense committee for their fellow-member of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, C.I.O. Attorney Edward Lamb of Toledo. Mr. Lamb faces disbarment proceedings because of allegedly unprofessional remarks in court in opposing an injunction against the United Shoe Workers of America. According to the committee: "Mr. Lamb's remarks may call for an expression of apology to the court. They must not be made the excuse for an attempt to invade fundamental liberties...
...those of another generation of American movie-makers which are no longer shown in the commercial theatre. A glimpse into the future might show a carefully and intelligently movie-cultured audience of students here imbibing its American Civilization from celluloid documents preserved in the film library founded by the Guild...