Communists and the Guild

With 193 of their 4,100 members present at the meeting, the leaders of the New York Newspaper Guild last week got through a resolution, addressed to President Roosevelt and the United Automobile Workers in California, denouncing the use of Federal troops to break the Communist-supported strike at North American Aviation Co. The vote: 163-to-30.

Fed up by these tactics on the part of the radical group which dominates their union, 598 Manhattan Guildsmen signed petitions to President Roosevelt vigorously washing their hands of the red resolution.

Also fed up was U.A.W.'s President Roland J. Thomas who accused Guild Vice President Milton Kaufman of "irresponsible action," said Kaufman had egged on North American strikers "in direct opposition to the advice of President Murray (of the C.I.O.)." Said Thomas: "The members of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. consider your action a presumptuous and completely unwarranted interference in the affairs of a C.I.O. union which has always been . . . well able to protect the interests of its own membership."

In Boston last week the Newspaper Guild lost, 182-10-157, an NLRB election on the Boston Globe. Chosen bargaining agent instead by editorial, maintenance and business employes was the independent Boston Globe Employes' Association. Ironic sidelight: the Guild's national president, Donal Sullivan, a Boston Globe reporter and desk man, will henceforth have to let a rival union bargain for his salary.

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