Whether the American Newspaper Guild was to be a labor union or a professional society was settled at its first convention, in St. Paul in 1934. The delegates realistically conceived the reporter as a creature of wages, hours and working conditions, bluntly declared that they wanted more, fewer and better, respectively. By the time its fifth annual convention met last week in Toronto,* the Guild was beyond all doubt a labor union. More than that: It was one of the most successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record...
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