Word: guildmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks' union which last month voted to join the American Federation of Labor (TIME, June 8). In 1934 the AP employes were granted a five-day week in return for suspending further efforts at collective bargaining. Last October the five-day AP week was suddenly rescinded. The AP Guildmen thereupon asked their National Executive Board to intercede with AP's General Manager Kent Cooper. Day after the Guild's protesting letter reached Mr. Cooper's desk. Morris...
Gratefully remembering the opportune gift of $2,000 from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America which had tided the Guild over a bad financial time last winter, saturnine Assistant Sunday Editor Julius Klyman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch urged the Guildmen to endorse Lewis' committee for Industrial Organization (TIME, Feb. 10) instead of the American Federation, which he believed to be "a crumbling institution which may not survive another six months...
Like all conventioneers, the Guildmen enjoyed their chance to cheer popular sentiments. Lively, liberal little Lawyer Morris Ernst, the Guild's shrewd Manhattan counselor, drew loudest cheers when he cried: "The public has a right to know what the newspaper publisher owns! If the publisher is a trustee of the freedom of the Press, then it is the trustee's first duty to make full disclosures to his beneficiaries...
Taking stock at their convention, serious Guildmen saw that in its three years of existence the Guild had yet to win a concession from its archenemies, William Randolph Hearst and the conservative directors of the Associated Press. Of this, two Guild martyrs at the convention, handsome Dean Sothern Jennings, fired by the Hearstian San Francisco Call-Bulletin two years ago, and Morris Watson, baldish A. P. man whose ousting will be argued clear to the Supreme Court, were walking examples. Moreover, Guild officials frankly admitted membership had not increased as they hoped. Once the Guild had 10,000 newshawks signed...
...credit side, Guildmen pointed to their coherent national organization, to their contracts with the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, Publisher Julius David Stern's New York Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral...