1. The Times on Trial.
- Author
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Seldes, George
- Subjects
ACTIONS & defenses (Administrative law) ,LABOR unions ,NEWSPAPER publishing ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,LABOR movement ,LABOR union laws ,LABOR laws - Abstract
Focuses on the trial of publisher, owners, managers, and editors of "The New York Times" against the charge of violation of the Wagner Act where three employees were discharge because of their union activities in the U.S. Institutionalizing of labor-spy system by "The New York Times," to know the progress of union organization within the company; Contention of the Newspaper Guild who handled the quasi-judicial hearing that the management intimidated the employees by discharge or transfers to "Siberian" assignments; Threat of publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger to sell the paper; Assertion of the author that the newspaper were shown to be the ringleaders in the campaign of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association to smash the unionization movement; Statement of the managing editor Edwin L. James regarding the case.
- Published
- 1939