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...exception, due to at least three issues too hot to be disposed of entirely in private. One was the NRA newspaper code which expires June 15. Another was the question of letting down the bars against radio news broadcasting. Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan...
...cities. Those 39 underwrite the $1,000,000-a-year cost of getting pictures from any distance in about ten minutes (TIME, May 7; Jan. 14). When the project, secretly negotiated, was revealed at last year's AP meeting, two delegates fumed with rage. One was John Francis Neylan, brainy, brawny counsel for William Randolph Hearst, who holds 19 AP memberships. The other was peppery little Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard Newspapers), who has six. Lawyer Neylan roared at the AP management for "the most unjustifiable extravagance in the history of journalism." But Wirephoto supporters promptly pointed out that...
Beaten by ballots, Hearst's Neylan, a tenacious, fighting Irishman, was barely home in San Francisco from the convention last year when he started to load his guns for a return battle in 1935. In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto. Alternatives: drop it entirely or turn it back to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to be operated by the latter for all the U. S. Press, with losses guaranteed by the four existing big picture agencies (AP, International, Acme, Wide World...
Third reason for the strike's collapse was the newspapers which got together and bellowed "Revolution!" at the top of their lungs. John Francis Neylan, chief Hearst counsel, was recalled from Hawaii to direct the publishers' campaign against the general strike, arouse public opinion. Editorials harped on the idea that Communists were to blame for the city's plight, that radicals were directing the strike, that Labor must purge itself of such Red leadership before there could be any arbitration or settlement. The publishers got little or no support from Washington for their tubthumping. When General Johnson...
Aside from press blasts, two public utterances helped to turn the tide of labor sentiment and end the general strike. One came from General Johnson, after his "conversion" by Mr. Neylan. Said he at Berkeley where he went to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of California: "The right of dissatisfied men to strike against a recalcitrant employer is inviolate. . . . But the general strike is quite another thing. It is a threat to the community. It is a menace to the Government. It is civil war. . . . When the means of food supply-milk to children, necessities...