The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-04

San Francisco, Aug. 4.-(UP)- The American Newspaper Guild planned to nominate and elect offlc- CTS today, completing the major business of the convention that ap- proved 10 resolutions last night de- fining the unions policy.
 The resolutions:
 CD Asserted that a further effort was needed to successfully conclude the Hearst newspaper strike in Chi cago;
 @ Vigorously opposed propa- ganda discriminating against reli- gions and races;
 (3) -Petitioned Gov. Culbert L Olson of California to pardon War ren K. Billings;
 (4 Urged Canadian labor to fight for continued unity in the face of breaches between its United States aff1liates;
 (5) Resolved that whereas Har- ry Bridges has worked faithfully for democracy and trade unionism and is being persecuted by selfish groups, the guild voices unqualified support of him."
 (6) Expressed confidence that formal obstacles to United States la- bor unity will be terminated and de- clared that American Federation of Labor leaders are responsible for them;
 CD Directed the guilds interna- tional executive board to create a committee to support the New Deal in 1940 and urged locals to engage local, non-partisan political organi- zations;
 (8) Condemned Father Charles E. Coughlin "as an enemy of pro- gressive unionism, 8 hamburger of fascism and would-be strike-breaker'
 (9) Declared that the Associated Press had resisted the guild with every resource, condemned the "re- actionary labor policies of the A. P.' and instructed the FEB to take proper steps to bring the policies of the A. P. to the attention of the entire labor movement and to the attention of the readers of the A P.'s 1,400 member newspapers which are responsible for the A. P.'s anti labor relations with its own em- ployes;"
 dO Declared that a reactionary Congress had killed the federal the ater and curtailed the WPA to the point of assuring a depression; en- dorsed a program whereby the only eligibility for WPA employment is jobleSsness and willingness to work and providing employment on pro- jects suitable to the workers needs; resolved that Congress should re- store the prevailing wage for WPA workers and stop the cruel, inhuman Woodrum- Tabor method of layoffs.'
 The convention previously had en- dorsed all major New Deal policies and approved third term for Pres- ident Roosevelt.
 On the Coughlin resolution, Presi- dent Haywood Broun moved that in order to avoid any thought of an at- tack on the Catholic church, the priest be mentioned as Charles Coughlin" instead of "Rev. Charles Coughlin." Broun withdrew the amendment, however, after the con- vention had deleted a section urging the Catholic church to discipline Coughlin.
 The wire service committee urged that national organization of A. P. workers be made the main objective of the next year and asserted that "all evidence indicates that the A. P- United Press, and International News Service are tending to become agencies for obstructing the devel- opment of the guild on every impor- tant front in the United States"
 The organization committee rec- commended that two, and if possible, more international representatives be added to the guild staff to work with locals financially unable to con- duct their own organization and also that district councils like those functioning in New England and northern California should assist in organizing areas from where metro politan newspaper staffs are drawn.
 The publications committee sug-