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...Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates representing the 4,200 Guildmen in good standing voted 84-10-5 for affiliation with the American Federation of Labor...
Before voting, the Guildmen heard New York's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declaim: "I think the Pullman porters had some difficulties similar to yours. Like you, they are scattered all over the country, and some are on the road all the time, so that it is extremely difficult for them to assemble. Further more, they met a most stubborn resistance on the part of employers. Airmail and passenger-line pilots, like you, originally resented the suggestion that they join in a labor group. They are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
Gratefully remembering the opportune gift of $2,000 from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America which had tided the Guild over a bad financial time last winter, saturnine Assistant Sunday Editor Julius Klyman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch urged the Guildmen to endorse Lewis' committee for Industrial Organization (TIME, Feb. 10) instead of the American Federation, which he believed to be "a crumbling institution which may not survive another six months...