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JOSEPH H. COURTNEY Morgantown Glassware Guild, Inc. Morgantown, W.Va...
...Dobbins, a frequent baiter of labor bosses though an American Newspaper Guild member himself, quite plainly saw his own responsibility, sat down at his drawing board and, with his characteristic heavy-lined style ("I can't draw tiny lines-I'm six feet four"), once again exposed Jimmy in his bearskin (see cut). Said Dobbins. "I'm pleased that I scored-he seemed such a hard guy to penetrate with ridicule...
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...
Last week both sides had had enough, hammered out mutually acceptable terms: a written guarantee of pension benefits, increased job security, a 3.3% wage increase. St. Louis guild leaders, passing the terms along to international headquarters for formal endorsement, hailed them as the fruits of victory...
Commissioned by the National Actors' Guild to do a huge, 127-ft. mural for the Jorge Negrete Theater on the subjects of "Tragedy," "Comedy" and "Farce," Siqueiros was one-third finished before the guild's horrified Secretary-General Rodolfo Landa saw what Old Party Member Siqueiros was up to. By "Tragedy," it turned out, Siqueiros meant "the aggression of the government against the workers." A blazing blue-eyed soldier is slugging a striker while near by a mother weeps over the body of a youth draped in the Mexican flag. Sketched out on adjacent walls were Siqueiros...