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Whether the American Newspaper Guild was to be a labor union or a professional society was settled at its first convention, in St. Paul in 1934. The delegates realistically conceived the reporter as a creature of wages, hours and working conditions, bluntly declared that they wanted more, fewer and better, respectively. By the time its fifth annual convention met last week in Toronto,* the Guild was beyond all doubt a labor union. More than that: It was one of the most successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first...
...past year has been the most important in the Guild's brief history. In 1937, it had 11,112 members in editorial departments. Today, the convention was told, the Guild has 16,797 members on its rolls, 13,505 in editorial departments and 3,292 in the newly acquired commercial department jurisdiction. Total number of U. S. editorial workers eligible for Guild membership is about 25,000. Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before...
...Sioux City, five minutes before the polls closed in Iowa's primary election, Guildsmen in the Tribune sat down in the news room and in the Woodbury County election precincts in which they had been stationed. Within 80 minutes, a contract was signed. Among its provisions: Guild shop for editorial and business office employes, no discharges for economy for four months, vacations with pay after one year's service. Wage schedules, which the Guild refused to incorporate in the contract, were posted on the bulletin board. Typical wages: for reporters less than six months $16, after six months...
...Manhattan, after threats of a strike, the Hearst Daily and Sunday Mirror signed a one-year contract with the New York Newspaper Guild covering 450 editorial and commercial department employes. Among the provisions: pay increases for 360 employes, no pay cuts during the life of the contract, five-day, forty-hour week, severance...
...Manhattan, the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram under contract with the New York Guild since April 1937, signed a new one-year agreement covering 550 employes and including for the first time all commercial department employes...