Talk:Vern Partlow

Union activities/journalism

There is a sentence that reads "Partlow was also active in the trade union movement early in his life, even though he was also actively working as a newspaper journalist." As both a journalist and union delegate myself I can say that, at least in Australia, it's not as an unusual occurrence as this line makes out. I don't know enough about the situation but perhaps there needs to be a qualifier like for the place and time it was unusual. --Roisterer (talk) 06:52, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

• I can't qualify it more than it already is. Most American journalists do not belong to labor unions (they never have). To find a source that says "almost no American journalists have belong to labor unions" doesn't really address Partlow's situation, does it? We'd need to know if his particular paper was organized. One alternative situation is that Partlow held two jobs: Reporter by day, union organizer by night. None of the sources I have seen are that explicit. Another alternative situation is that Partlow had a reporting job by day, and volunteered as a union organizer in his spare time. None of the sources I have seen are that explicit, either. It is common knowledge in the U.S. that reporters rarely have outside jobs (the practicing doctor who is also a medical reporter or practicing attorney who is a legal reporter is, today, somewhat common, but outside the specialized, skilled professions such as those it is very rare). That, however, is already said in the article. - Tim1965 (talk) 13:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Younger songwriter?

The following line is a little strange: "Partly wishing to encourage younger songwriters like Partlow, Pete Seeger established the magazine Broadside in 1961 to promote the work of younger folk artists." Not only was Vern Partlow a sprightly 51 in 1961, but comparing their birthdates Pete Seeger was in fact 9 years younger than Partlow, whereas this line gives an impression wholly otherwise. Zephirius (talk) 12:33, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

1930s at Daily News? (citation question)

Hello Tim1965,

I recently asked you about a citation for the birth date. Now I have a question on the citation of Burtons' article "Newspapers at risk of becoming shopping specials". You wrote, that Partlow started working for the Los Angeles Daily News in the 1930s. In Burtons' article it only says that Burton was a reporter in the 30s and something about a Newspapers Guild. In the next paragraph, he writes something about "the late Vern Partlow, a staffer at the [...] Los Angeles Daily News" - but nothing about when he started there. PLUS the first article I found from Vern Partlow on the Los Angeles Daily News was on 30.12. 1944 (doesn't have to tell much, but it makes me a bit more skeptical about whether he started in the 30s...)

So my whole question is if you have another citation which quotes that he startet there in the 30s (or if I understood something wrong/overseen something, it wasn't thaaat much research going on)

Thank you in advance

Jhonny768 Jhonny768 (talk) 16:20, 25 October 2026 (UTC)