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...Publisher William F. Hofmann of the Long Island Press (circ.: 71,341) in Jamaica thought his strike troubles were over when he signed an agreement with the American Newspaper Guild early last week. But when he discharged 27 returned strikers for "reasons of economy," the rest walked out again. An editorial picket line scuffled with pressmen, kept most of them out of the building. At week's end Publisher Hofmann announced that the Press was involuntarily suspending publication, first time in its 118 years...
Robert Montgomery, who startled admirers of his customary flip performances last week by appearing as a pathological murderer in Night Must Fall (see p. 67). promptly stepped into the news in still another role-as president of Hollywood's Screen Actors' Guild, Inc. Rumors of stirring social consciousness among cinema stars, notably pert little Jimmy Cagney, have been emerging from Hollywood more & more frequently of late. Prime outward evidence is the 5,600-strong Guild, to which virtually all film actors and actresses belong. Last week's strike faced the Guild with its first big test...
...problems facing U. S. newspaper publishers: a threatened 1938 newsprint price rise of $7.50 a ton, 25% up in three years; an increasingly difficult taxation situation complicated by Social Security, particularly involving the use of boys to deliver and sell newspapers, and the prairiefire spread of the American Newspaper Guild...
Possibility of the Newspaper Guild's making a special effort to unionize President Stahlman's own paper, as a matter of Guild prestige, paled beside a more immediate home-town newspaper situation...
President of the League is Robert L. Johnson. Vice-presidents include James R. Angell, Newton D. Baker, Charles C. Burlingame, Robert Catherwood, Howard R. Guild, William B. Hale, Ogden H. Hammond, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, George McAneny, Charles P. Taft, 2nd, and Russell Whitman...