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...August 1936, six New York Times editorial men, headed by grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism...
Timesman Holden explained that the Society had decided to name five nonjournalistic honorary members each year, naturally selected the nation's chief executive and chief judiciary officer for first honors. Promptly the American Newspaper Guild protested to the President, asked him to reconsider his affiliation with the Society, "that the dignity of his office may not be abused to lend prestige to any movement hostile to the interests of legitimate trade unionism." A similar resolution was dispatched to the Chief Justice, the leftist Guild being entirely willing to let the Society keep Herbert Hoover...
...Under Guild pressure, Chief Justice Hughes politely withdrew from the Society, but the President definitely down-thumbed the Guild's protests by describing at his press conference how Steve Early and he had looked over the Society's constitution, decided it was a "pretty good thing." To the correspondents he read...
...Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has been a member of the American Newspaper Guild since...
Embattled last week on a coast-to-coast picket line, the American Newspaper Guild, in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial...