The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-23
LABOR PRESS ATTACKED BY PUBLISHERS
JOURNAL FOR EXPOSING NEWS
PAPERS TACTICS

By MARC STONE, Federated Press
IN A PITIFUL editorial wall in it's April issue,
Editor Publisher, organ of the newspaper
accuses American labor papers and Fed
Grated Press of painting ''viciousy untrue pic,
ture" of what it admits has been Sustained
campaign to make the Government use
paid advertising space to promote the war effort
"Our desk has been kept pretty well covered
this week with tear sheets and clippings from
various labor newspapers, all OF them carrying a
Federated Press story critical OF Editor q Pub
Usher and other newspapers which have advocated
Government advertising for war finance and other
war purposes" the trade journal says in an edl-
toria entitled "Vicious Propaganda"
Then quoting a paragraph from the FTP story
which said that U. S. publishers were demanding
to be paid for their cooperation in the war effort,
the editorial continues:
"That is vciousy untrue picture of what has
been done. U. S. publishers have formed no line
at the Treasury. They have put absolutely no
pressure on either executives OF legislators in
Washington.
"The only sustained pressure has been exerted
during the past three months on this page OF
Editor & Publisher, for reasons which we consider
1000 patriotic
eve have urged newspaper advertising upon
the Treasury, not for the sake of lining the
pockets of publishers, but to increase the number
of those millions who have bought bonds and
stamps since Dec. IT,
The editorial, which concludes by saying that
eff editors of the labor press are sincerely inter
eSted IN winning the war we cannot under
stand their persistent sniping at the daily news
might have been acceptable at It's face
value
If, on the same page another editorial did not
attack the AFL because the Federation said it
was forced to buy advertising space to get it's side
of the 4O-hOur week controversy before the public
If, f. & p. had not tried to clear the publish
ers' skirts by taking upon it's own shoulders the
responsibility for the campaign for paid adverts-
ing. The publishers did join the ad campaign
whether E. & P. started it or not CTheir de-
mands upon the Government have been reported
in the pages of the trade journal week after week
for the past several months.)
If, Arthur Robb, editor of the f. & p, in his
weekly column of personal comment the week be-
fore, had not praised the violent anti-labor cam
paigns launched by the Oklahoma daily news
papers in their phony grass roots" attack on the
4O-hOur week.
If, Robb again, in the same piece, had not taken
the liberal traditions of the old New York World
under Joseph Pulitzer and his famous editorial
writer, Frank Cobb and dragged them through
the mud by comparing the notorious Scripps- How
ard "Wake Up, America It's Late editorial to
some of the World pieces.
If, in this same piece, Robb had not repeated
parrotke the stale daily paper lies about 'little
greatest lie of them all-that Pearl IIarbor was
the result of strikes which prevented the delivery
of ships, planes and supplies
TO the Editor & Publisher blast about ''vicious
the Federated Press has only one
answer:
LET u. S. publishers end their war against
labor, the Government and the people; let u. S
publishers give to the war effort the 1909 sup
port which labor has given since Dec. T; let u. S
publishers stop licking their lips over the prospect
|Of fat Government advertising subsidies and labor
will support the daily newspapers of America as
they have never been supported before