WAR ON COMMUNISM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 5

WAR ON COMMUNISM

DECLARATION BY HEARST SEQUEL TO STRIKE SEATTLE, Aug. 20. The appearance of Mr. Harry Bridges, in a. new role, occurred as the result of the suspension of the publication of the Post Intelligencer, the Hearst morning newspaper.' The journalists' union, known as. the Newspaper Guild, calling a strike due to the dischagc of two members from the journal, obtained the support of the Teamsters and Longshoremen's Union, and created an effective picket line, making impossible the entry of the printers and other employees. The newspaper has now remained" unpublished . for a week.

Mr. W. R. Hearst, from Rome, cabled a statement that he had spent' £200,000 to maintain the newspaper during the depression. The issue was one of the freedom of the press and the country. Drawing attention to the activities 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, unnaturalised here, and unwilling to be naturalised, to defy its laws and constitution, and to ride rough-shod over its liberties, • but whether anybody else makes a fight against Communism we are going to make it, and 1 have enlisted for the duration of .the war."'.