Word: broun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commonwealth has as yet given no John Reed, nor even a Heywood Broun, to the Cause, and in recent years its internal troubles have griped it more than the occasional forays of its students and teachers into areas of labor strife have irritated capitalists. Five years ago two-thirds of Commonwealth's student body went on strike, presumably because the institution's brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded...
...Broun, who calls me the Benedict Arnold of American Labor," is, in the opinion of Mr. Green, "a stooge for the avowed Communists...
With this exchange of tentative pokes in the public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
Next day Mr. Broun replied: "On the extraneous subject of Communism, I might reveal the fact that several years ago I promised my wife, Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella, that I would never join the Communist party unless I joined the Catholic Church within the same week. I imagine that probably I will not ever be admitted to either." Mr. Broun said the main objective of the Guild is to stay in the C. I. O., added that "Mr. Green is the greatest single obstacle in the path of the labor movement. . . . The stone must be rolled away...
When seconded by 16 units, the referendum demand went before President Broun and the International Executive Board, who will schedule a national vote of 11,000 Guildsmen as soon as the motions are found in proper order. Thus, after a week of squawks and counter-squawks, the four-year-old Guild found itself ready to take inventory of what it has done so far, what its future course will...