The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-11
Detroit Councils Puid Ad On
Word Case Rejected By Press
Lubor's Answer To Sewell
Avery Termed Libelous
By Council

Detroit (FP). The Detroit Free
Press signalized the election of Pub
Usher John S. Knight as president OF
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors by refusing to print paid ad
vertisement by the Wayne County (De
troit) CIO Council The al dealt with
the defiance of our government by
Chairman of the Board Sewell l.
Avery of Montgomery Ward x Co. and
expressed full support of President
Roosevelt in the case.
The Free Press made no attempt to
dodge the issue by such false pleas as
lack of space Instead, IL sent an adj
vertising solicitor To the Office OF Presi-
dent c. Pat Quinn of the CIO council
TO pick mp the copy for the quarter
page ad. The copy quoted from two
Free Press columnists and from the
chairman of L. $. Steel Corp. 1t didn't
call Avery any worse names than he
had been calling the government In the
protracted labor dispute over CIO
contract at his Chicago headquarters
The Free Press lawyer termed some
of ii libelous and assumed the power
To say that in his opinion some Of II
was irrelevant and some of 1t illogical
As Quinn remarked HE evidently
thinks il libelous to disagree with Mr..
Avery"
The rejected ad began by pointing
out that Avery was "the Chicago em-
ployer who Is competing with Adolph
Hitler in waging war against our gov
ernment" (libelousD 1t quoted from
Marquis Childs, two Detroit capitalist
daily columnists and Big Steel's chair
man to prove that public opinion sup
ports President Roosevelt and orderly
procedure against the dictator of Mont
gomery Ward" (libelousD
"The Ward case" Is continued, sis
not mere dispute between an EN-
ployer and the workers. The reaction
airy type Of employer personified by
Mr. Avery regards this dispute as Il
major battle between the policy of col
lective bargaining established by fed
eral law and his own anarchistic
robber baron way Of running business.
(libelous)
I'VE further maintain" the Go
copy declared, that the dictator of
Montgomery Ward is guilty of near
treason I'm reyiling and defying the
government on the eve of the invasion
of Europe" (highly libelousD
I'VE have therefore, by resolution
formally adopted May 2, put on record
our support of President Roosevelt and
Attorney General Biddle for their varl-
Gus actions In the Ward case Dur stfb-
port Of President Roosevelt and the
war labor board I'm extending To all
employees the protection and authority
of fhe government even though not EN-
gagged In primary war industry; our
condemnation of Senator Vandenberg
and Representative Hoffman of Michi-
igan for running to the defense of Mr..
Avery; and our request 10 the entire
Michigan delegation to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt In this dispute and
vigorously oppose any attempt to
weaken his authority" (union as
sumes FDR has the authority, was
Free Press attorneys final blast of re-
jection)
The Free Press Is the paper that
spread on Its front page last year the
Guadalcanal libel on American seamen,
which was disproyed by navy and
marine corps authorities that seamen
had refused To unload vital!y needed
supplies In the Guadalcanal campaign
on Sunday. The lie was written by
Publisher knights Akron, Ohio sob
ster and also put on the front page
there.