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...stakes were high. When the local unit of the American Newspaper Guild struck last month against the Philadelphia Inquirer of Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications, the newsmen's union was fighting for survival in the city. With the Bulletin unorganized and a suspended contract at the Daily News, the Inquirer was the Guild's last stronghold in Philadelphia...
...under the pressures of the strike. Guild members were soon fighting one another. Some 15% of the membership on the Inquirer drifted back to work. Helped by a strike of the Teamsters (TIME, June 23) that bottled up the Inquirer's distribution, the Guild grimly put pressure on the defectors. Soundtrucks, parked near their homes, blared: "Your neighbor is a scab. He has sold 650 striking co-workers down the river." Pressure of a still grimmer kind was applied to Inquirer Movie Critic Mildred Martin, widow of Newsman Linton Martin. She got one phone call from...
Even after settling with the Inquirer last month, the Teamsters continued to give firm support to the Guild, refused to cross its picket line to go back to work. The Teamsters thereby limited the Inquirer to lobby sales averaging 19,000 v. normal circulation...
Last week, after 38 bitter days, Inquirer and Guild finally came to terms. The Guild won a pay raise ($3-$5 a week for the next year) plus an arbitration clause for disputed firings, a shield against anticipated cutbacks. But when the workers returned to their jobs, they found new work schedules that penalized strikers in favor of strikebreakers; e.g., Amusement Page Editor Henry Murdock was assigned to work for Reviewer Barbara Wilson, a former subordinate who had been given his editorship. The Teamsters threatened to walk out once more unless the old assignments were reinstated...
...hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs (such as the price of a look at another man's cards), although some borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue" on him. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," Sammy once observed. "The boys began making enough to tide them over." But Sammy Bronstein's biggest moment was yet to come. Two years ago, when the Missouri Pacific RR. reorganized, a $3,600 bond investment of 1938 was suddenly worth $970,000 to Sammy, who earmarked most...