Vindication

The whole membership of the American Newspaper Guild would not undo last week what its delegates had already done at the smoothly-steered June convention. In a referendum forced by the Columbus, Ohio unit which reconsidered every resolution passed at the convention, 5,083 of the Guild's paid up editorial members upheld affiliation with C. I. O. 3,392-to-1,691. Further, the membership endorsed (2,774-to-2,202) the resolution urging independent political action with other labor groups when this seems desirable, called (2,815-to-2,178) for increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen employed, supported (2,685-to-2,271) President Roosevelt's plan for revising the Supreme Court. Only convention action rejected by the membership was a resolution to the effect "That Fascism must be defeated in Spain to halt the anti-labor forces."

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.

The American Federation of Labor which this week formally expelled the CIOish Guild, served tart notice that the A. F. of L. will proceed under full steam to organize a rival editorial union.

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