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Seattle case tests freedom of press and union power
Special to American Newsnavert reports a national labor relations board hearing opening in Seattle over the Post-Intelligencer discharges. Guild charges accuse editors and Seattle chapter of conspiring to ruin the paper. the guild had called a strike while 64 editors remained. Edwin S. Smith leads the board inquiry with Hearst counsel Edward Woods for the Post-Intelligencer and Robert Watts as prosecutor. The case hinges on press freedom and editorial control amid a surrounding political shift, including the recent governor race results in Washington.
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