(1888–1939), U.S. war correspondent, columnist, and labor leader, born in Brooklyn, N.Y.; column “It Seems to Me” moved with him from New York's Tribune to the World and World-Telegram; column “Shoot the Works” appeared regularly in The New Republic; often fired because of criticism of government's anti-Communism stance and his defense of the radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, who had been unjustly charged with murder; in 1933 helped organize, and became first president of, the American Newspaper Guild.