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...purpose of the National Guild shall be to preserve the vocational interests of its members and to improve the conditions under which they work by collective bargaining, and to raise the standards...
journalism. . . ."-Article II, Constitution of the American Newspaper Guild...
...much better than it was. General Johnson seemed to have a very judicious and admirable attitude. ... I have sympathy for NRA and all is right with it. ... Frankly I do not believe in a newspaper guild. ... I like to feel that a newspaper man is like a soldier in war. He should be willing to go out whenever there is a call and willing to work all day and all night on his assignment if it calls...
...Hearst (laughing) : I don't think they ought to starve. It's not happened on our papers. . . . The Guild would tend to deprive the reporter of the character which makes a newspaper man a romantic figure...
...slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen by the Literary Guild. But Author Stribling had won more than official plaudits. By his solid, slowly earned popularity he showed that in the long run U. S. readers, though they...