Emerald Began Publication 55 Years Ago, February 12 By Anne Ritchey Emsraltl Atlitlcnt N«wt Editor Fifty-five years ago tomorrow the free Ore gon Daily Emerald whh started. Then it watt not fand it wan not daily, tint It wan a beginning for the student)) who had worked hard for the Ideal of a student publieatlon. ('ailed the Oregon Weekly, It was small in form and in trope, but it filled the need shown by several literary clubs who had previously attempted to publish magazine-type periodicals. Tile l.aureen club was the one that took action In the form of petition they asked for the right to sponsor a publication. Before that the magazines had been strictly controlled by the /acuity. The nu t of these, the Kef lector, was started In 1891 and lasted almost four years. Ji contained class and society fea tures, personality sketches and excerpts from Speeches. The Kefleptor had no regular publication schedule, and Its successor, th<- Bulletin, was a monthly. The Bulletin lasted one year and was under direct faculty and administration Influence. A free press at the University actually came in March, 1H97, when the Oregon Monthly ap peared. The students had a voice in determining the paper's policies for the first time since the idea of a campus publication had been present. Literature was tried within Emerald pages at different times, and in 1922 a Sunday edition was published contsining student work. Again In 1927 a literary supplement was pub lished, this time with its own name, the Oregon Spirit. The Emerald was named in 1909, with the first issue under the name on Sept. 29 of that year. It was then published twice a week. In 1912 it was published 3 times weekly, and was 5 columns wide. The first, daily editions appear*-! in HI20, and in 1929 the Emerald became a full 8-column paper. In 1941 it became tabloid, or 5-column size, its present size. THE OREGON WEEKLY. ■ * ■: v . -K '-'***'* * *m imui AFL union leaders Thursday un animously approved th<- AFL CIO merger -agreement and the pact appeared well on its way to being put into effect. The endorsement by the AFL executive council waa only one in a aeries of necessary ratifying j actions which AFL President George Meany said he was con fident will be accomplished. Told that some business lead ers have expressed fear that r welding the AFL and CIO into a single organization would tend to create a labor monopoly. Meany expressed disagreement. “We represent only a minority of workers in the country." j Meany said. "There are more than 60 million workers and we've organized less than 25 per cent of them." Meany said millions of work ers probably never could be or ganized because their work doesn't lend itself to unionism. 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