“ENLISTED FOR WAR.”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 5

“ENLISTED FOR WAR.”

HEARST AGAINST COMMUNISM. REPLY TO JOURNALISTS STRIKE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 20The appearance of Mr Harry Bridges, who is we'll known for his trades union activity, in a new role has occurred through the suspension of publication of the “Post-Intelligencer,” a Hearst morning newspaper (say 5 a telegram from Seattle). The! journalists’ union, known as the Newspaper Guild, in calling a strike because of the discharge of two members of the journal, obtained the support of the Teamsters and Longshoremen’s Union in creating an effective picket line, making impossible the entry of printers and other employees to the office. The paper has remained unpublished for a week.

Mr W. R. Hearst, in a cabled statement from Rome, said lie had spent 1,000,000 dollars to maintain the newspaper during the depression. The issue was one of freedom of the press and the Country-

Drawing attention to the activity of the Longshoremen’s Union, of which Mr Bridges is the leading spirit, he said: “There is no country, even an independent one, which allows citizens of alien lands to advocate' alien, doctrines like Mr Bridges, who is a British subject," iinnaturalised here and unwilling to be naturalised, to defy its laws and constitution and to ride rough-shod over its liberties) but whether or not anybody else makes a fight against Communism, we are going to make it, and I have enlisted for the duration of the war.”