Press: AP v. Guild

In 1933 an earnest, thin-thatched Associated Press reporter named Morris Watson organized and headed in the AP's New York office a unit of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union which last month voted to join the American Federation of Labor (TIME, June 8). In 1934 the AP employes were granted a five-day week in return for suspending further efforts at collective bargaining. Last October the five-day AP week was suddenly rescinded. The AP Guildmen thereupon asked their National Executive Board to intercede with AP's General Manager Kent Cooper. Day after the Guild's protesting...