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...Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with hands rough from manual work stands in France against Capitalist "big business" against Marxist ''class war," for ardently nationalist French "trust busting" and for a French application of "corporativism"-i. e., a Parliament whose members each represent a guild or unit in the national economy, a plumber being the deputy of plumbers, etc. Thus far jobless middle class youths have been his chief recruits, for the French bourgeoisie are beginning to think that the more or less aristocratic Croix de Fen of Col. null de La Rocque will never...
Last week the American Newspaper Guild's seven-month strike of 24 editorial workers against William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News came to a peaceful conclusion. Only twelve Guildmen had stuck it out since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...
...London Bank Officers Guild and the Scottish Bankers Association jointly mobilized to get Justice for one W. E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years...
Last week John Thomas Mclntyre made Pete's subsequent adventures the basis of a fast moving, 504-page novel that won first place as the U. S. contender in an elaborate contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition. Jointly sponsored by the Literary Guild, Warner Bros., Farrar & Rinehart and publishers in eleven countries, the All-Nations' prize is to be awarded after an international elimination contest. As U. S. contender, Author Mclntyre wins $4,000; if he wins the All-Nations' prize he gets $19,000. Steps Going Down is a lively and frequently amusing book...
...Seattle, however, Publisher Hearst's Post-Intelligencer did not appear on newsstands at all last week. When local members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen...