Word: partlow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, an impartial arbitrator had just decided that the fuzzily liberal tabloid Daily News had acted properly in firing Rewriteman Vern Partlow, and in refusing to rehire Movie Reviewer Darr Smith. Both men had been named by former Communists testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee as their onetime fellow members. Both men had refused to say under oath if they were, or had been Communists. The News's Executive Editor Lee F. Payne fired Partlow and struck Darr Smith's name off a rehiring list...
...News President Robert Smith soon made it plain that he was as concerned with a practical fear of possible "business" boycotts as he was with moral principles. Conceding that Partlow was an able employee who had never "slanted" his copy. Smith & aides promised Partlow his job back if only he would swear that the charges were not true...
...brought the weird charge that the dismissals violated its contract with the News because no "sufficient cause" was given for dismissal. It also cited a state labor clause forbidding dismissal for "political beliefs." Arbitrator Paul A. Dodd, dean of Letters and Science at U.C.L.A., ruled that nobody had proved Partlow or Smith a Communist, and that anyway, that was not the issue. Dodd got to the heart of the matter: "A newspaper has. . . a quasi-public responsibility . . . In view of our nation's struggle today against the forces of Communism throughout the world, all those who hold a place...