Evening star., 1937-07-21
PUBLICITY IS HELD
LASH ION INDUSTRY
Ford Official Cites N. |. R. B.
Activity in Address to
Editors.
By the Associated Press.

OE1ROl1, July 21.-Wllllam j
Cameron of the Ford Motor Co. told
members of the National Editorial
Association today that publicity is the
lash on the whip being used by
political agencies on industries that
maintain their independence.
"The National Labor Relations
Board" he said, "is the agency for
this news"
THE Federal law" Cameron told
the editors, "sets up travelling courts
Of inquisition. One is sitting in De-
troit now as Judge, prosecutor and jury
on its own charges. Any findings by
the court favorable to industry are
given only scant mention by the press,
but the ends of the political agencies
already have been served.
This misuse of the press never
occurs to an industry that signs up
with unions) and many have signed
up to avoid legal lynching"
newspapers, not achievements,
made John L. Lewis" he declared
Labor has originated nothing in the
way of better conditions for workers.
All of its ideas have been borrowed
from progressive industrialists."
Denies There Was Ford Riot.
He asserted that there never was
q Ford riot, that there never was
a labor disturbance in the Ford
shops" and that Ford employees never
rioted"
mo firms that are owned by any
one have signed with the union"
Cameron said, explaining that he dis
tinguished between stock corporations
and firms directed by the owners.
The N. E. A. awaited the formal
report of a committee drafting a reso-
luton calling for concurrence with a
dozen other newspaper associations in
opposing a closed editorial shop.
The invitation of that nature bore
the approval of Steering Commit
tee" as 1t headed toward a vote by
delegates to the N E. AS fifty-second
annual convention,
A flve-man committee, representing
the field of metropolitan journal
ism in as many States, announced it
favored adoption of the proposal.
Under it the N. E. A. would join
forces with IL similar organizations
to fight the attempt of the American
Newspaper Guild to gain closed shops
in editorial and news rooms of the
Nations neWSDaperS
Backers of Acceptance.
Members Of the committee which
recommended acceptance are William
H. Conrad, Medford, Wis, chairman
R. B. Howard, London, Ohio; Roy A.
Brown, San Rafael. Calf; Harry See
ley, Waverley, N. Y, and E. F. Abels,
Lawrence, Kans.
Previously Allen E. MCGOWAN of
Minneapolis, acting executive secre-
tary of the N. E. A., took the stand
that the small town publishers prob
lens are different" and he has little
interest" in the American Newspaper
Publishers Associations efforts for a
united front in this matter"
Speakers at a banquet last night en-
phasized public responsibilities of the
newspaper. The editors were guests
of the Detroit News, Free Press and
Times.
Warning of rising costs in all COM
modities, including paper" and the
necessity of meeting these higher
costs with higher employe pay" Homer
Guck of the Times said newspapers
must conform to fundamental princi-
piles in public service" to continue
prospering.
THE real business of newspaper
today Guck said, lis to get the facts
and report them truthfully and &C
curately. Only in this kind of public
service is there hope that a newspaper
may prosper in these times"
Day of Smart Writing Gone.
The public, he said. wants facts and
the day of smart and clever writing"
Is departed
the depression comparatively well,
but credit for this must go largely to
the wholehearted support of employees
and to the low price of print paper"
The universal problem" before peo-
pile today, said Malcolm w. Bingay of
the Free Press, is not alone freedom
OF the press, but freedom of personal
opinion" The former. he said, is
merely manifestation OF this per-
sonal freedom to your opinion"
Presupposing that President Roose-
velt's Supreme Court bill is doomed.
Blngay said such an outcome will be
followed by the return to the legis-
lative bodies of the freedom to make
laws without dictation from any indi-
Vidual or small minority"
Lee A. White of the News said the
newspapers freedom to utter and pub
llsh is the very substance and pattern
OF democracy and an announcement
to every true American"