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...executive committee of the New York Newspaper Guild last week called on the carpet the newsmen on three left-wing publications. The charge: the left-wing workers were being too kind to their bosses. Specifications...
...pinko National Guardian, staffers were accused of violating the pay scale ($60 minimum for writers) in their Guild contract by kicking back part of their salaries as "loans" to management to keep the near-bankrupt weekly going...
...Guildsmen on the pinko Daily Compass were accused of working in collusion with Editor & Publisher Ted Thackrey in the immediate economy firing of 13 employees, despite a Guild contract clause requiring 30 days' notice. ¶ Guildsmen on the Communist Daily Worker were charged with siding with management to keep the old pay scale ($71 minimum for reporters), while the Guild's local leaders were trying to raise Worker salaries in line with those on other Manhattan dailies...
Twenty-five years ago this month the Theatre Guild needed a new curtain. In 1925 the Guild was still no more than a healthy off-Broadway weed, and it decided that the price of the curtain could be raised best by putting on a small musical show Sunday night, when most theaters are dark. A young man named Richard Rodgers, just out of Columbia, was told about the Guild's plan and urged to write the music for the show. Rodgers was fed up with writing music for amateur theatricals, and had almost made up his mind to enter...
...Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...