The Washington times., 1936-08-29

light an amazing coalition of New
Deal Democrats, Communist party
leaders and American Newspaper
Guild organizers, plans to publish
a radical daily newspaper in Sc.
attic were revealed today, with
new details that promise to be-
come national issues.
Dating from q conference last
June between Postmaster General
James Farley and Dave Beck, Sc.
attic labor boss, which Beck later
described as "a very constructive
10 minutes with jim" New Deal.
ers and radical labor leaders ANAL.
gamated their forces. These forces
have now become a part of long.
agitated plan of the Communist
party to occupy exclusively, with
it's own publication, the morning
newspaper field in this city OF
100000 people.
Started Chain
Beck's conference with Farley
was one of the first links in a
chain of events, whose last link
was forced in Seattle last Tues
day evening when John F. Dore
at a Guild mass-meeting, which
was turned into a Democratic rally,
advocated the reelection Of Presi.
dent Roosevelt. Almost in the
same breath, he declared that the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, forced
to suspend two weeks ago by mob
action, should be driven from the
city to make way for another
morning newspaper.
AS Dore was speaking, copies OF
the Guild Daily, d new four-page
morning publication, issued by the
American Newspaper Guild, were
being sold in the hall. This paper
was established the day following
the suppression of the Post-1ntel-
ligencer.
Eventful Period
Between Beck's conference with
Farley and Dore's speech, many
things had happened.
The Post Intelligencer, t h e
city's oldest and only morning
newspaper, target of a minor COM
plant made by the small minor.
ity of it's editorial staff who were
members of the American News
paper Guild, was suppressed Au-
gust 13 by mob of teamSters,
longshoremen, seamen a nd log.
gers. This mob, in the guise Of
guild "pickets,' beat Post-Intelli-
gencer employees, blocked en-
frances of the plant against $50
union workmen in the mechanical
departments and rioted around
the building all night. The man
agement announced indefinite suS-
pension.
City police made no attempt to
disperSe this mob. Mayor John F.
Dore. Democratic party New
Dealer. last spring had announced
over the radio, on municipal cleo
ton night, that he could never
have been elected without the aid
OF Dave Beck. Beck was at his
elbow and was introduced by Dore
to his radio audience as his War
wick"
Pledged Support
Dave Beck was the man who
following his very constructive
10 minutes" with Postmaster Far.
ley last June. on July 13, at the
State Federation of Labor conven'
ton at Vancouver, Wash, made
the motion which put that meet
ing back of the American News.
paper Guilds fight against the
| Post-Intelligencer. It was here that
Beck promised to use "repriSal
and economic force" against this
newspaper, a threat carried ou:
in it's full force month later
when the mob closed the news
paper.
Few Subscribers
Mayor Dore, who appeared on
the so-called picket lines on that
night, the next day justified what
had happened with the statement
that this is labor adminiStra
ton" This statement was quickly
followed by a Statewide radio
broadcast by Governor Clarence
D. Martin New Deal Democrat, ir
which the governor said State
police would not be sent to Seattle
and that calling out of the Ma
tional Guard was "unthinkable.
But all this only sets the stage
for what is now happening. Over
a year and a half ago a grour
of radical labor leaders and self
styled liberals announced plar
to establish a morning newspaper
in Seattle, in competition with the
Post-Intelligencer.
It was attempted to raise funds
for this publication by selling ad
vance subscriptions. After a yeal
of effort the promoters announced
that they had succeeded in sell
ing only 5000 subscriptions. Sub
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