Word: guildmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-day week, minimum wages, vacations with pay, dismissal notice with pay, sick leave with pay. This offer was rejected by the Guild because the Hearst management would not agree to its being witnessed by Milwaukee's Federated Trades Council. In time's course, while Guildmen and sympathizers busily made deep cuts in News circulation and advertising, the national Guild organization joined the American Federation of Labor and, with the support of other union groups, shut down Publisher Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer (TIME...
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...
...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...