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...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...
Stage-managed by his Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins...