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Newsday staffers, who have voted against the Newspaper Guild, are paid at about the national Guild scale plus a bonus of close to 6% every year. "To prevent office politics." all five of Newsday's top executives (Managing Editor Hathway; Ad Manager Ernest Levy, 55; Business Manager Harold Ferguson, 47; Production Manager Allan Woods, 41; Circulation Manager Jack Mullen, 43) get the same salary. Since 85% of its circulation is home-delivered, Newsday has one of the largest forces of carrier boys (3,000) in the U.S. The paper paternally treats the most enterprising ones royally to new bikes...
...constitution of the 27,000-member American Newspaper Guild, C.I.O., provides that no one shall be barred from guild membership "by reason of age, sex, race, national origin, religious or political conviction." That provision has always prevented the guild from slamming the door on Communist members. Last week at its annual convention in Los Angeles, the guild passed a resolution to amend its constitution, barring from membership "any proven or admitted member of the Communist Party." Explained Guild President Joseph F. Collis: "Membership in the Communist Party represents more than a political conviction and is in fact participation...
...American Newspaper Guild protested the discharge, contending that Polumbaum should be judged on whether his copy had shown bias, not on his nonjournalistic activities. But it agreed to let an arbitrator, appointed by the American Arbitration Association, decide. Last week, after deliberating for two months, Arbitrator George Spiegelberg, a Manhattan trial lawyer, upheld the discharge, though he thought that U.P.'s specific reasons for the firing had not been proved. Nevertheless, Spiegelberg held that "The fact that the customers of U.P. would or might believe that U.P. retained a biased reporter . . . gave U.P. just and sufficient cause for discharging...
...lips seemed to form the words "No! No!" Without any warning or relevancy, McCarthy interjected the name of Fred Fisher, 32, an associate in Welch's Boston law firm, Hale & Dorr. Fisher, said McCarthy, "has been for a number of years" a member of the National Lawyers Guild, "the legal bulwark of the Communist Party." Welch, he went on, had tried to get Fisher hired as "the assistant counsel for this committee" so Fisher would have a chance to be "looking over the secret and classified material." When McCarthy had finished his harangue and turned to his paper-shuffling...
Fisher, said Welch, had indeed belonged to the Lawyers Guild while a law-school student and for some months thereafter. He had indeed been chosen to help prepare the Army's case, but it was never suggested (as Chairman Mundt verified) that he work for the committee. Fisher is now a leader of the Newton, Mass. Republican Club, but when he told Welch of the Lawyers Guild incident before the hearings began, said Welch, "I asked him to go back to Boston. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury...