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Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...
Ironically, the biggest obstacle to a settlement turned out to be the union that had not been expected to give anybody trouble-the big but rarely belligerent Newspaper Guild. Even before Bert Powers' printers went on strike last Dec. 8, the Guild had come to terms with most Manhattan papers. But when Mayor Wagner drew up a settlement stipulating that the contracts for the city's ten newspaper unions all lapse at the same time, the Guild got back into the act; its agreement was necessary on any new expiration date. And, said Guild Executive Vice President Thomas...
Back to the Commodore Hotel went the talk-weary publishers, who might have seen this problem approaching months ago. Aware that the Guild's members were anxious to get back to work, the publishers at first offered them only a token raise of $1.50 a week to take effect Nov.1, 1964. "Wholly inadequate," snapped Murphy, who wanted an extra $4 to make up the difference between the $8.50 package the Guild got last fall and the $12.50 won by the printers. He also wanted a citywide Guild shop, pension plan and medical program. The publishers upped their offer...
...many another Guildsman. At week's end, top officers of the Guild recommended acceptance of the publishers' offer by a split (9-8) vote, but that vote was far from final. This week Guild units at each New York newspaper must ratify the agreement, and there was some doubt that all would go along. At the Daily News, Guild unit leaders voted 47 to 3 to advise their members to turn the offer down. If that advice is accepted, the pickets ,will keep on marching. Bert Powers wants a common expiration date badly, and if the Guild rejects...
...There's an East Berlin and a West Berlin, but tonight we're sitting with the best Berlin," sang Danny Kaye at a gala Beverly Hills banquet where Composer Irving Berlin, 74, accepted the Milestone Award of the Screen Producers' Guild. It was only the second time (the first: to Bob Hope in 1962) that the Guild's award for outstanding movie achievement had been presented to someone other than a producer. President Kennedy, ex-Presidents Eisenhower and Truman telegraphed their congratulations. And then, "with great pride," surrounded by a boodle of filmdom's most...