Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 332 American Newspaper Guild members walked out of Sam Newhouse's St. Louis Globe-Democrat last Feb. 21, no one really expected them to stay out for long. The strike issues-chiefly pensions and job security-scarcely sounded desperate or even irreconcilable. But the guild was well heeled and angry, and Sam Newhouse, with the paper closed down, was not taking a heavy net loss from day to day. Within a week the walkout turned into a bitter siege...
...weeks and months wore by, idled Globe employes took work elsewhere; others struggled along on strike benefits (up to $80 a week). Left without a morning paper, Globe-Democrat readers and advertisers bolted en masse to the Post-Dispatch, which gained better than 60,000 in new circulation during the strike...
...like too many strike winnings, the fruits were seedy.' Irrevocably lost during the 101-day siege: an estimated $600,000 in workers' pay, an estimated $5,000,000 in revenue to the Globe-Democrat, plus incalculable long-range losses in subscribers and advertisers. "No one," said Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, "wins a strike that lasts as long as this...
...Kewanee (Ill.) Star-Courier, Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Times, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Muscatine (Iowa) Journal, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier, Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star, LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune, Madison (Wis.) State Journal...
Died. Irakly Tsereteli, 77, leading Social Democrat who returned from Siberian exile at the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution, served as Minister of the Interior in Kerensky's provisional government until Lenin and the Bolsheviks ran him and all other moderates out of power; of cancer; in Manhattan...