Virginia Gardner was a star reporter for the Tribune in the 1930s, but her Communist sympathies left her at odds with archconservative publisher Robert McCormick.
The Chicago Police Department shot and killed 10 unarmed demonstrators in Chicago on May 30, 1937, during the Republic Steel riots. On May 31, 1937, Virginia Gardner, realized that while some journalists work for a paycheck, others have a love affair with truth.
When she arrived at Tribune Tower, a photographer came out of the darkroom and tearfully said: “ ‘Come here, Miss Gardner. I want to show you something.’ “The important thing is that it was on that day in 1937, Memorial Day, I decided that the thing I must do was to join the Communist Party,” she wrote. “I had no illusions that I’d change things. If I could make Col. McCormick and his like a mite less comfortable I wanted to do it.”
“As if it was an entirely commonplace statistic, he said, ‘Of course I am a Socialist’,” she wrote in her unpublished memoir, which was provided to the Tribune by New York University’s Tamiment Library. Virginia Gardner, then executive secretary of the Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges, told a Senate judiciary committee on Sept. 3, 1941, that Francis Biddle, nominee for attorney general, had permitted Department of Justice agents to tap wires and intercept telephone conversations of Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leader. Gardner was previously a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
“On a the ledge there, surrounding the lower part of the Tribune’s front, lay stretched the unemployed, wrapped in newspapers tied against the wind—a mass of men as close together as sardines in a can.” Newsroom wits quipped that incident left Mother Cabrini just one short of the two miracles required for elevation to sainthood.
An article written by Virginia Gardner for the Chicago Tribune reports on the impending beatification of Mother Cabrini, better known as Mother Teresa on June 18, 1936.
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