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...newspaper tactics of trying to fight it out, publish a paper somehow, Portland's Oregonian, Oregon Journal and News-Telegram just closed down. While Portlanders spun their radio dials for news, police posted in the newspapers' plants twiddled their thumbs. There was no violence. The American Newspaper Guild is notably weak in Portland, so instead of supporting the striking printers, editorial men on the Oregonian petitioned them to "cease a policy which has forfeited our jobs...
...just stepped in as general manager of the six Northwest units of the Scripps League of Newspapers, including the Portland News-Telegram had to abruptly turn his attention from what he had thought was .going to be his big job, the Seattle Star, embattled by a six-month Guild strike...
When he came to Morris Ernst who is also counsel for the American Newspaper Guild, the Mayor in his peculiar idiom cried that Lawyer Ernst had "organized newspapermen into Communism." From a Guild reporter in the press section, clear and loud, came one word: "Nuts...
...interrupted?" shouted the Mayor. A policeman shouldering through the crowd to find the culprit tapped the elephantine shoulder of Columnist Heywood Broun, Guild President, who denied his guilt. But the Mayor noticed nothing. He was launched on his peroration. Thus last week, was the C., I. O. exorcised from Jersey City...
What the Eagle strike seemed to prove was that a publisher could get out his paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...