Evening star., 1933-09-20
FORMER REPORTER
WORK|NCFORC CODE
Lindsay Rogers, Aiding John.
son, Got Newspaper Start
in Baltimore.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A man who got his start in life IS
news reporter is working now to get
the many branches of the newspaper
and printing industry to agree on one
work-cutting, wage-raising N. r. A.
CODE
He is Lindsay Rogers. the deputy ad-
ministrator chosen by Hugh S. Johnson
to frame a charter for newspapers,
commercial printers, magazine publish
ers, electrotypers, bookbinders and so
on down the line.
AS reporter for the Baltimore
American, published in his home town,
he got his first newspaper experience
in 1909-when he was 18. In 1912
when the Carpathia docked at Balti-
more with the Titanic's survivors,
Rogers covered the story. That same
year he attended the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
BY 1915 he had Phi. D. from Johns
Hopkins: in 1920 he became a lecturer
on law at Harvard. and in 1927 profess
Sor of public law at the latter school
Since 1929 he has been professor Of
public law at Columbia University. ac-
cepting temporarily the N. r. A. post
Political Science Student.
Political science has been his chief
study in recent years. and he has served
as associate editor Of Political Science
Quarterly and American Political
Science Review.
The persons who have testified be-
fore him this week say two things about
him strike them-his sense of humor
and a facility for getting to a basic
point.
Some have not liked that particular
ly. because on a number of occasions
he has gotten the witness to laughing
and then popped question that hurt
All of his sense of humor and
diplomacy likely will be needed if he
gets all the newspaper and printing in
dustry under one code So far. % have
been presented. One was drawn by the
National Editorial Association covering
halle 2dozen recognized branches.
Il just hope" Rogers told reporters.
enough to consent to one CODE as some
of them already have. OF course, this
is all done by agreement, SO I can't
say fatty that there will be one code"
At least three organizations Of news
paper writer's and editors are reported
ready to seek changes in the code sub
mitted by the American Newspaper
Publishers Association when it comes
up for hearing Friday.
Outline From New York.
Haywood Broun. New York column
ist, yesterday called upon Gen. Johnson
and outlined the position of the New
York Guild of Newspaper Men and
Women, which was formed Sunday. Also
conferring with Broun was Paul Y
Anderson, a Washington correspondent
of the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. who
spoke at the organization meeting Of
the New York Guild.
/ York group had retained Morris L.
Ernst, an attorney from that city, to
represent them at the hearing.
In addition. they had reports from
the Newspaper Union of Cleveland
that it would have State Senator Mar
vim C. Harrison at the hearing and
that the Philadelphia Camden organ
iZation Of news men would be repre-
Sented.
Among the demands incorporated in
the New York brief were shorter hours
and a specified notice before discharge,
the length of time to depend upon the
time the employe had been with his
employer
George L. Berry, president of the
Pressmen's Union and a member Of
the N. r. AS Labor Advisory Board,
will be the labor adviser to the admin
istration on the code. The industrial
adviser had not been selected. although
it is customary to announce these some
time in advance of the hearing. It was
said an adviser har been tentatively de-
cided upon and that his name would
be announced today if he accepted.