Press: Newspaper Guild

Almost as excited as their employers over an NRA code, newspaper workers have been busy forming local guilds since last August. Last week delegates from 30 guilds, proxies from 43 more, met in Washington to draw up a constitution and elect officers for the American Newspaper Guild.

Friends of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, who has been struggling with the code for five months, well knew that the deputy NRAdministrator hoped that Guild delegates would not create further friction with publishers by making Heywood Broun, pinko Scripps-Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch), vice presidents; John Eddy (New York Times), secretary.