The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-02-09
Good Reporter Is
Needed By Guild
Says Joseph Wise
Correspondent Tells Chico
go Writers Publicity Man
Would Help
BY JOSEPH A. WISE

Newspaper Guild, for the first time in.
sofar as | am aware, took exceptions
in the January Is issue of the Guile
Reporter, its official mouthpiece, to a
statement which | made in an Inter
national Labor Service story several
weeks ago. The Guild Reporter does
not deny the accuracy of my state.
ment. 1t merely sandwiches the state
ment in among lot Of other allega-
tions in an effort to bolster up it's case
about its fake Chicago strike.
Says the Guild Reporter:
"A story by international Labor
News Service, another A. F. of L. serv-
ice, and signed by Joseph A. Wise
blandly makes the statement that 'evi-
dence taken before the National La
Dor Relations Board in Chicago showed
that the American Newspaper Guild
has 228 members out of 5000 Hearst
employees in Chicago"
Statement Not Refuted
The word "blandly" evidently is
meant for sarcasm. The writer of the
article did not make an attempt to
refute my statement, which is correct
ly quoted.
have been writing constantly about
the Chicago Guild situation since last
May, and this is the first time that the
Guild has even made a pass at refut-
ing any statement | have made.
The American Newspaper Guild has
had no chance to deny any Of my state
ments because | have stuck closely to
the official record made by the Guild
itself in hearings before the National
Labor Relations Board:
Guild EXaggerates
The Chicago Bureau of international
Labor News Service has had an unin-
terrupted record Of truth telling for
the last 16 years.
That is why trade unionists and
many friends in other walks of life
have faith in it. Our policy of telling
only the truth is recommended to the
American Newspaper Guild as a
change from its national shouting that
it has "6OO' persons on Strike" on the
Chicago Hearst press.
The Guild purposely exaggerates in
order to fool trade unionists, whom
it has double-crossed, into sending it
money.
Bureau Follows Record
The Chicago bureau of international
Labor News Service is responsible only
for the statements it makes. 1t follows
the record and is careful to check and
double-check.
The truth Of the matter is, the
American Newspaper Guild has
made its own bed and now finds
it too hard to lie in.
The Guild lost it's breeches in hear
ings before the National Labor Rela-
tions Board. 1t had two hearings be-
fore the board, one in May and June
and another in October and Novem-
ber. The hearings cost the Govern
ment a pretty penny, not to mention
cost to the A. F. of L. affliates whom
the Guild chose as adversaries.
Guild Is Rebuffed
The upshot of the whole affair was
that the National Labor Relations
Board, tired Of the antics of the Amer
lean Newspaper Guild, screwed UP
courage to tell this CIO affiliate to go
take 2 swift jump into the lake, figur-
atively speaking.
But before the board decision was
made, the Guild, sensing that it had
lost its case, declared a fake strike
on December ) last.
Guild Publicity Poor
The Guild also has met with other
features of bad luck. For example
the Guild appealed to the La Toilette
Civil Liberties Committee Of the
United States Senate to come to Chi
cago and make some thunder for the
American Newspaper Guild. Senator
La Follette's committee sidestepped.
What the Guild has needed from the
first is good lawyer and a good pub
licity man. Its present lawyer is nov
ice and the Guild publicity smells bad
despite the fact that the Guild is made
up of what are presumed to be profes-
Slonal newspaper men.
1t is a long established and we'll
known fact that a good lawyer and
reporter compose a winning
team.