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There were no social functions, no civic ceremonies. All sessions were to be closed but President Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild got them opened after the first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned...
...American Newspaper Guild-which recently reported 13,328 members to its foster parent, the Committee for Industrial Organization-divided victories last week with the press associations...
United Press editorial employes chose the Guild 277-to-84 as their nation-wide bargaining agency, opened the way for immediate negotiations between U. P. management and Guild authorities, who seek to cut the U. P. work week to five days and make other changes in U. P. employment conditions. Although the Guild demanded a National Labor Relations Board poll in May, delay followed a U. P. challenge that all bureau managers, even those with only one assistant, were executives and ineligible to vote. While the N.L.R.B. held hearings which decided this point in U. P.'s favor...
Associated Press employes, already on a five-day week, learned last week that a Guild-proposed contract for the New York office had been studied and flatly rejected by the A.P. board of directors a fortnight ago. Throughout extended negotiations with New York A. P. officials the Guild insisted upon a Guild shop under which all new employes must join the Guild within a stated period...
...Guild, and the League of New York Theatres representing top producers (a notable exception, Gilbert Miller), agreed to give the playwright full control of play disposition after its legitimate production, also to give him 60% minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau...