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...seven weeks, 500 striking members of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had kept Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun (circ. 612,468) from publishing so much as a single edition. The strikers were backed by upwards of 1,000 craft employees. Some 100 nonstriking editorial and commercial employees continued to report for work every day. Early one morning this week, Editor Howard decided to take a drastic step. Howard locked up the plant. Whether the lockout would stick or not was another question and only Roy Howard knew the answer...
...U.S.S.R. and North Korean varieties-and here & there its temper not only boiled up but boiled over. Items: ¶ In Detroit, the common council forbade sidewalk news vendors to sell "subversive literature," gave the commissioner of police the job of determining what was subversive. The Detroit Newspaper Guild protested that they disliked Commie publications ("They are dismal examples of journalism. They have shown a constant disregard for the truth.") but didn't believe in suppressing them. The council decided to think it over for a week. ¶ In Birmingham, Ala., big, blustery Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor...
...weeks on the picket line at Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun, Reporter Joan Gahan, 24, had worn out three pairs of shoes. Last week, as she has done since the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild's strike began at the third biggest evening newspaper in the U.S. (circ. 612,468), Newshen Gahan took her two-hour daily turn. As the pickets ambled in circles at the newspaper's three entrances, some worked puzzles, read papers, or played "20 Questions...
...lines. Occasionally, the ugly cry of "Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll...
...mediation session last week, the W-T & S management offered job security and union security clauses like those in the New York Times contract. The Guild replied that it would accept the entire Times contract, but not just its "worst features." Management withdrew its offer. It also took a full-page ad in the Times, restating Editor Roy W. Howard's objection to any kind of editorial Guild shop as "prejudicial to . . . objectivity...