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...claimed that their shows were not ready for reviewers' eyes at previews, and the critics made unseemly comments to the effect that any fellow who couldn't dash off a sharp review in an hour ought to go paint gold-leaf letters in some monastery. The Dramatists Guild complained, the League of New York Theaters complained, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers complained...
...battle of Crécy, Joan of Arc was 17 when she took Orléans from the English, and Ivan the Terrible was the same age when he hounded the boyars to death and had himself crowned czar. But for ordinary people, particularly under the long-prevalent guild system of apprentices and journeymen, life was a slow progression toward experience and eventual reward...
...three-week strike was officially over, and all New York City newspapers were publishing again. It was an uneasy and precarious peace. The Newspaper Guild's Tom Murphy seemed to he threatening yet another walkout: "If the World-Telegram and Journal-American were to merge," said he, speaking of an event the industry expects, "I could put a picket line out, and they wouldn't publish as individual papers, let alone as a merged paper." Printers' Boss Bert Powers was reminding everyone that he has not given an inch in his demands. Any new contracts, said Powers...
...distortions of a fun-house mirror." To make matters worse "defections and internal feuds have riddled the centra] organizations on which both sides once relied to promote industrial stability." Though they had talked over the issues for a full six months before the strike, neither the Times nor the Guild was prepared for serious collective bargaining. On the crucial question of the Times's pension plan, the "Guild did not bring in either an actuary or a program until after the strike, but neither did the Times meet the Guild's full-information request until after Ted Kheel...
...realization that newspapers are not an ordinary everyday business. They are, in effect, a public utility; to shut them down, whoever is responsible, can be as damaging to a city as turning off its electric power. Echoing a general dissatisfaction with the fact that the Times and the Guild were unable to negotiate productively, Arthur Goldberg, Ambassador to the United Nations, said that compulsory arbitration was the most promising answer. The hostility of both publishers and unions to any type of compulsory arbitration makes even that proposal questionable...