Evening star., 1937-07-19
BR0UN|ST TERMED
'STOOCE' Of REDS
Green Calls on Guild Head
to Resign-Cites |. E. B.
Desertion.
By the Associated Press.

William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, at
tackled Haywood Broun yesterday as
a "stooge for avowed Communists"
and called on Broun to resign from
the presidency of the American News
paper Guild.
About year ago, Green said in
formal statement, Broun came
knocking at the doors Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor" seeking a
federation charter for the guild.
The charter was granted, Green
said, but he added that at a recent
convention Of the guild in St. Louis
President Broun, inspired by some
very astute scow-trained revo-
lutionaries," took the guild into John
L. Lewis Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Text of Statement.
The full text Of Green's statement,
released here, follows:
Mr.. Broun was one of the origina-
tors OF the Newspaper Guild. and came
knocking at the doors of the American
Federation of Labor about a year or
so ago asking a charter.
When went to New York at Mr..
Broun's invitation to present that
charter, Mr. Broun, defender of free
speech attempted to dictate my ad-
dress. Failing in that, he proceeded
to hurl investive in my presence.
Immediately I concluded my remarks,
which were, in effect, a warning of
where the Committee for Industrial
Organization was attempting to lead
the workers of America
That warning went unheeded. and
g few weeks ago at st. Louis, at what
was to have been a convention of an
international union of the American
Federation of Labor Mr.. Broun, in
splred by some very astute Moscow
trained revolutionaries, took the guild
into the c. I. O. He opened the men,
nershlp to every one in the newspaper
plants from neWsboys and charWomen
to classified ad takers, forgetting that
before the guild existed there were
unions OF working newspaper men en-
ployed on labor publications and in the
foreign language press and there were
affiliate unions in which newsboys,
charWomen, Office workers, ct al. were
perfectly free to join.
Farmer Labor Party Backed,
Mr.. Broun, who calls me the
Benedict Arnold of American labor,
also placed his convention on record,
thereby binding some 10000 working
newspaper editorial men in favor of
Farmer-Labor party and in favor of
one faction in Spain. AS Paul Y. An
derson, Washington correspondent of
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch, no friend
OF mine, so Wittily put it, The con-
vention did not indorse murder, high
way robbery or arson
Last Friday night the Washington
unit OF the guild held special meet
ing to give Mr. Broun hearing. The
Washington unit, the Columbus
(Ohio) unit and other units from
California to Michigan to Massachu-
Setts are now in process of holding a
referendum in which complete re-
pudiation Of the st. Louis convention
appears on the ballot.
Mr.. Broun admits, among other
things, in his hearing before his fellow
newspaper workers that:
Il. He has been deserted by his own
international executive board, which
favors a referendum.
ua oIv,,;fc th,t rof,,rr for
$1,000 per month per capita dues,
John L. Lewis of the c. I. o. proposes
to spend $4,000 a month for c. l. O.
organizers to be sent into American
newspaper plants to organize
"3. He still feels that union DOM
Post-Dispatch Walter Lippmann,
Mark Sullivan, Walter Winchell,
Dorothy Thompson, Frank Kent, Louis
Stark, Sidney Skolsky, Paul Mallon,
Ed Sullivan, Westbrook Pegler, Henry
L. McLemore, Charles w. Dunkley and
the great rank and file in the editorial
/ rooms of the American press could hold
common aims with telephone operators,
| ad takers, carrier boys and what have
you; and that the guild is in a posi-
ton to carry on fight for them,
! when it is in reality in death grapple
| with the American Publishers Asso-
| citation.
Tear jerking Address"
"Mr. Broun made what one news
paper man termed a tear jerking
address, He tried to justify his con-
duct and pleaded the referendum, if
voted adversely on the question of C..
I. o. afiiliation, would in effect re-
pudiate his leadership OF the guild.
He pulled his old act Of characterize
| ing me as Benedict Arnold He ran
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