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ere . At BROUN's call, representatives of fifteen local groups met at Washing-~ ton, De Ca on December 15, 1933, The American Newspaper Guild was _ formed and BROUN Was elected President. At that time the Guild had om neither an A, F. of L. or a C,1.0. affiliation. The C.I.0. was then unborn, as , ’ he organization continued throughout the United, States and on Apri. eee si ~-- +2, 1934, the first ‘contract was’ signed between a local of the Newspaper Guild and J. DAVIN STERN, publisher of the Camden Courter, the Phila~ delphia Record, and the New York Evening Post. During the next two years contracts were signed with the Cleveland Press and the New York S Daily News, The number of Guild locals had grown from four to eleven ; and included locals in New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, st. Louis, a and Chicago. The Guild boasted ay ch prominent members as WALTER 2 eh x LIPPMANN, DOROT (THOMPSON, WALTER(WINCHELE, MESTEROON{FEOLER, and ELEAN {ROOSEVELT a JOHN LAIEWIS of tne “inated Mine Workers of America donated $2,000.00 to the American Newspaper Guild at a time when the financial cupboard was bare, Mr. DINNEEN expreased the opinion that this was the first major mistake of the Guild, as it placed the Guild under oblivation to LEWIS "and chafed newspaper men who valued their independence." There was a convention of the A.N.@. in New York in 1936. DINNEEN claims that it was at this convention that the A.N.G. became a labor union in fact. There were 4,200 members represented by 89 delegates who voted 84 to 5 for jatfiiiation with the American Federation of Labor, JULIUS KLYMAN’of the St. Louis Post Dispatch had urged affilia- tion with the C.I,0, and said, "The American Federation of Labor is a crumbling institution that will not survive another six months," At a St, Louis convention of the Guild in 1937, the Guild went over- board for the C.I,0. and abandoned the A,F, of Le At the 1940 Memphis Convention of the Guild, the delegates: voted an endorsement of a third tern for Roosevelt, chastised Fatner Charles EBs Coughlin a5 an enemy . of labor, and pledged its support of Harry Bridges, then under investi- _ . gation and in danger of deportation, At the Memphis convention of the Guild held July 8 to 12, 1941, the issue of Communism came out in the open. In the voting for international officers, JULIUS KLYMAN of St. Louis switched from the anti-Administration group to the pro-Administra- -. tion group, and it was moved by a delegate that KLYMAN be electer acclamation. The opposition offered no candidate, but ROBERT Ma‘ BUCK from Washington boomed out a dissent which was augmented by the full OS igaemtaee wage