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...Rexall Drug Company, owners and operators of the store, have refused to arbitrate with the Retail Pharmacists' Guild of the American Federation of Labor since the strike began last Saturday, but offered the union a reduction of two hours and a raise of 31 per week before the strike began...
...seventh-floor office in the Chicago Sun-Times plant, Publisher Marshall Field, Assistant Publisher Marshall Field Jr. and other top brass met last week with a 22-man emergency committee of the Sun-Times Newspaper Guild unit. The committee spokesman told Publisher Field that the Guild had heard rumors of an impending bloodletting, wanted to get the bad news straight from the surgeon himself. Replied urbane Publisher Field: it was no mere rumor. His money-losing, round-the-clock Sun-Times was an "economic impossibility," so he was planning to drop the evening editions and turn it into a morning...
Four hours later, a packed, tense meeting of the Sun-Times Guild tabled a motion to take a strike vote, chiefly because the staffers-and ex-staffers-felt that nothing would be gained by a strike that might destroy what was left of the paper. But to newsmen, the firings were one more packet of evidence from Millionaire Publisher Field that it takes more than money to make a successful newspaper...
...activity is in the East, where about 250 will open this year. Connecticut and Massachusetts are the most popular bases of operations for barn Belascos. The larger theaters in these states, and some in Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York, are testing grounds for plays slated for Broadway. The Theater Guild's new musical, "Arms and the Girl," was first tried out at the Guild's Westport Playhouse...
...Lady's Not For Burning will be brought to Broadway next fall by the Theatre Guild. A Phoenix Too Frequent, a one-acter, now rehearsing in New York for a late April opening, will be his first to reach...