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...signing of 40 contracts since the 1937 convention made collective bargaining the Guild's most successful activity of the year. In all its previous history, the Guild had made only 37 contracts. In two respects, Guild agreements are rare in labor practice...
...Provision for dismissal indemnity. Of the Guild's 84 contracts covering 90 papers, two radio stations and two syndicates, over 80 provide for severance pay ranging from one to 28 weeks' salary for from one to 15 years of service...
...Prohibition of economy layoffs. To keep its members employed and to checkmate an excuse some publishers have used to discharge active members, Guild negotiators are meeting with increasing success in obtaining guarantees against economy layoffs for periods of four months to one year. The fact that newspapers must be produced every day even during depression helps to make such provisions feasible for the Guild...
...American Newspaper Guild has known but one President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...
...First convention of a C.I.O. union to be held in Canada; picked by the Guild to emphasize its status as an "international union...