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Striking for recognition of the American Newspaper Guild and better working conditions, 29 editorial workers walked out of the newsrooms of William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News last February. The management slipped enough writers through the picket lines to fill the News's columns. The mechanical staff stuck by its contracts and jobs. Guildmen circularized and picketed News advertisers & subscribers. Now, after six months, they claim that they have managed to reduce News circulation some 50%, appreciably curtail advertising lineage. Nevertheless, the Milwaukee Wisconsin News continues to appear on the newsstands six afternoons a week...
Last June the American Newspaper Guild officially became a Labor union by voting to join the American Federation of Labor. Guildmen hoped this step would enlist the active support of newspaper mechanical departments, other unionized groups, in their next strike. Last week in Seattle, for the first time since its birth in 1933, the newsmen's organization succeeded in closing down a major newspaper with a strike. That the suspended paper, the Post-Intelligencer, was the property of the Guild's No. 1 enemy, William Randolph Hearst, made the Seattle strike a notable milestone in the Guild...
Chartered last May, the Seattle Guild had 36 members in the Post-Intelligencer city room. Last month Publisher William Vaughn Tanner fired 225-lb. Head Photographer Frank ("Slim") Lynch and Dramacritic Everhardt Armstrong, active Guildmen. When the Guild protested, Publisher Tanner declared he had ousted the photographer for "inefficient management," the writer for "gross insubordination...
Last week the Seattle Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through...
...Shoemakers whose guild name was corrupted from Cordovan (Spanish) leather...