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With this exchange of tentative pokes in the public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
Lawyer Colombo tried to get back at the photographer by showing that he belonged to the Newspaper Guild, asked if he were a communist. U. A. W.'s Lawyer Maurice Sugar ended that line of questioning by having the witness testify that he worked for the Detroit Times, a Hearst-paper...
...President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
...long first-draft preamble was soon sliced down to one paragraph remarking the Guild's partisanship on the Supreme Court plan, the Spanish civil war, "the support of a particular political party," its affiliation with C.I.O. Some small-town publishers, still comparatively free from unionization, wanted in the resolution no recognition of the right to collective bargaining, fearing that it would inspire immediate mass organization in their plants. But broad-viewing publishers like Roy Howard fought for and won inclusion of such recognition as a means of gaining public goodwill. Up on his feet a dozen & more times jumped...
What caused most argument during distillation was the choice of one word in the last paragraph: should the publishers express "determination" not to enter into contracts for a Guild shop, or "refusal," or "unwillingness...