The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
PURL. .ISHERS TO
 CLOSE SESSION
To Convention Today Bs ] Election of OfiiCers for
 Ensuing Year

New York, April (UPJ- The American Newspaper Publishers as- sociation concludes its convention today after having canvassed prob- lenls arising from the Wagner act. from the increase in newsprint prices and from the Social Security act.
 Before electing officers and ad- journing, the association heard brief discussions of postage costs, current legislative questions and problems involving the newspaper boy.gs Elisha Hanson, general counsel for the association, told the pulp fishers that the supreme courts vali- dation of the Wagner act lis far more important in relation to the effect 1t may have on cases arising under entirely different laws, now non- n-existent, than 1t is in respect to future proceedings under the Wag- ner act"
 "The whole question of labor re- lationships in so far as they affect interstate commerce." he said, "has been placed squarely in the lap of congress"
 Discharge of EmplOye
 Hanson told the publishers that before discharging an employe af- filiated with the American NeWspa- per Guild Tit is imperative that you submit evidence to justify your act of discharge on whatever ground it was taken"
 The attorney expressed the hope that those who are engaged in an effort to organize your editorial em- ployes will not precipitate any un- necessary legal controversies"
 Hanson said. and added that the court conceded, that the law as 1t now stands has no mutuality." Con- gress, he said, twill dictate the char acter" of any changes to correct this fault.
 J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, asked the publishers aid in the fight on crime.
 Newsprint Monopoly
 The A. N. F. A. took steps to fight the Canadian rewsprint monopoly by fostering g United States news print industry in the southern pine regions. The move was taken in pro- test against an announced increase of $7.5O a ton for 1888, which would bring to 25 per cent the increases in the past three years on Canadian newsprint.
 The convention resolved to form 8 committee to follow all proper pursuits in interesting financial backing" in southern newsprint pro- jects.
 Several committee reports were received. E. M. Antrim of the Chi cago Tribune, head of the traffic committee, reported that his de- partment had successfully opposed suggested freight increases on news print of more than $1,O0O,O0O a year.
 Press Radio Bureau
 E. H. Harris of the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium-Item, chairman of the radio committee, proposed that 8 time be set aside for broad casting regular press-radio bureau reports in the United States to "off- set to some extent the possible in- fiuence of foreign propaganda.
 The Social Security committee, headed by A. V. Miller of the New York Herald Tribune, reported that "one of the most vexing problems" of publishers was determination of the status of newspaper boys. State administrations, the report warned, might rule that newsboys are em- ployes irrespective of the fact that the great majority may be operating under the so-called little merchant plan'."
 The report also recommended that the federal social security law be changed to eliminate provisions re- quiring accumulation of a huge re- serve" under the old-age section and to place operation of that phase of the program on a "pay-as-yo,-go basis"