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The Hutt Controversy. The election of G.A. Hutt, night editor of the London Communist Daily Worker, to the position as editor of The Journalist (official organ of the British National Union of Journalists) in 1948 caused controversy at a Dublin Branch meeting. He boasted that he had been elected “with the support of the solid Irish bloc.” Irish voted for him, not because he was a Communist but because he was the best candidate for the job.