The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
OPENS
ON SEATTLE
DISPUTE

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 10
QN.S0.-Because of a campaign
Of villification and boycott" as
sertedly carried on by the Amer
lean Newspaper Guild and its
Seattle chapter against the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer long before the
dismissal from the newspapers
staff of Frank Lynch and Philip
Everhardt Armstrong, the guild
not only has no lawful complaint
regarding those two former en-
ployes, but has no right to demand
the unemployment of any member
Of the Seattle guild chapter.
This was asserted today by the
newspapers attorneys in an an
swer filed to the guilds amended
complaint before the National La
Dor Relations Board. Twenty
four members Of the guild, a labor
affiliated union of editorial work
ers, are on strike against the Post
Intelligencer.
Hearing Opens Today
The new answer again chal-
lenged interference of the board
and the act under which it oper-
ates as being in violation of the
United States Constitution and re-
peated charges formerly presented
that the two dismissed employees
and the guild had taken the law
into their own hands by melting
the mob violence which forced
the newspaper to suspend publ
cation.
The hearing on the guilds CON-
plant that Lynch and Armstrong
were discharged for guild activity
will open today in the county-city
building with Edwin S. Smith, one
Of the three members of the
National Labor Relations Board,
sitting as trial examiner. Smith
arrived here yesterday by plane
from washington, D. C..
Importance Indicated
Indicating the national impor-
lance of the case, this is the
first time member of the Labor
Relations Board has personally
presided at a board hearing on the
West Coast. Edward G. Woods
heads the legal battery for the
Post Intelligencer. The answer set
forth:
For a long time prior to the
alleged committing of the sup
posed grievances upon which the
complainant (the guild seeks
to rely, the American News
paper Guild and its Seattle
chapter had been engaged in a
boycott of this respondents
Hearst Publications, Inc.) bus
mess in publishing the Seattle
POst-InteIligencer, and had rec
commended that subscribers do
not take the paper and that ad-
vertisers do not advertise there
in.
Pursuant to this effort to
boycott, the American News
paper Guild had INDUCED in q
campaign of villification. The
said boycott or plan to boycott
still exists and is being actively
carried on.
Wherefore, the complainant
Is eStOpped to request the Ma
tiOnaI Labor Relations Board
to compel respondent to re-
employ either Frank M. Lynch
or Philip Everhardt Armstrong,
or any other person who is a
member of the American News
paper Guild, Seattle Chapter"
COMPLAINT ASSAILED
In it's new answer, Hearst Pub
locations, Inc, declared that by
reason of the fact the guild had
"wrongfully taken the law into
its own hands after submission
of its alleged grievances to this
board" the guild comes before
this board with unclean hands
and should be adjudged guilty of
conduct contemptuous of this
board"
The Post Intelligencer was
forced to suspend publication
four weeks ago today following a
strike of two dozen guild mem
bers, which led to a reign of mob
violence. The "a strikers repre-
sent less than a third of the Post
Intelligencer'S staff.
Smith, commenting on today's
hearing, declared upon his arrival
yesterday that this is an impor-
tant event in American history"