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Under the Ontario Conservatives and during the pre-boom years, the Hydro-Commission had made four major, long-term contracts with power companies in the Province of Quebec. Liberal "Mitch" roared his opinion that these were foul, false and stank. Ontario, he claimed, had contracted for more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power...
Because of the moderately intelligent, highly articulate and supremely argumentative nature of the New Republic'?, and Nation's readers (less than 70,000 all told) ructions among their editorial personnel tend to create more fuss than their mere circulation figures would warrant. So a major little editorial crisis shook the Left press last week when the New Republic'?, inside back page displayed this bulletin...
...Republic announces that Heywood Broun has joined its staff. . . . The major event of 1937 has been the growth of organized labor. Central to the interest of New Republic readers is the unionization of writers, office workers, professional people; spokesman and leader in this field -Heywood Broun...
...claimed for ourselves and our other regular contributors only the right we unquestionably gave to him-free expression of opinion. The irony of Mr. Broun's disapproval was that he and we saw eye to eye on the court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect that the spirit of fair play may search him out and plague...
Vindicated by its scattered followers, the Guild leadership was ready to push on this week with scores of negotiations which have been dormant. Most important fronts: 1) the United Press, where the Guild began an intensive campaign to roll up a majority in the employe representation vote about to be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board: 2) the 95-year-old Brooklyn Eagle, where 305 editorial and business office Guildsmen are on strike in the first major test of Guild power in New York...