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...Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine as "one of the best [ideas] in the whole history of education in America." Month ago Editor & Publisher, house organ of the daily newspaper publishing industry, assailed the News issue as "far from objective, far from scholarly . . . unfair," while the American Newspaper Guild's Guild Reporter found it "objective . . . penetrating . . . avoids both the movie versions and the florid house-organ ideology...
...Brooklyn Eagle strike, first test of the Newspaper Guild's strength against a New York City daily, ended last week in what appeared to be a double knockout. At least both sides were groggy from breaking their hands on each other in over three months of stubborn fighting...
Gained by the Guild was a contract guaranteeing that of the 206 strikers, 166 will be rehired, the other 40 fired, given 20 weeks' severance pay. The Guild had demanded, but did not get, a preferential shop. And the Guild put an awful dent in its treasury supporting the strike at $3,000 a week...
Financially the Eagle took the most terrible beating. The Guild's most effective strike activity was a campaign to cut Eagle advertising, conducted with all the originality the newspapermen could give it. Pickets in full dress stalked before Manhattan theatres advertising in the Eagle, a hairy "gorilla" picketed a beauty shop until its distressed owner got an injunction against such tactics. Picketing of Brooklyn and Manhattan stores, plus a "consumers campaign" against national advertisers, undoubtedly cost the Eagle most of the 184,000 lines of advertising it dropped in the past three weeks...
...better standing than work relief affords-the Federal Arts Bill, a proposal for an arrangement more permanent and dignified than WPA, introduced in Congress last session by Representative John Coffee of Washington. Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists' Union which, with the Cartoonists' Guild, the Commercial Artists and Designers Union, had unanimously voted to join the C.I.O., was all for it. Said...