Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line around a plastic pattern. Almost every skilled craft worker in Britain still demands and gets a "mate" to carry his tools and do his lifting and fetching for him-a medieval hangover from the guild apprentice system. A Vickers' shipyard, for example, has an electrician who earns $56 a week chiefly for replacing about 30 light bulbs a day in the sockets of portable lights. He has an assistant who earns $40 a week for handing him the bulbs...
Offscreen, Heston is president of the Screen Actors Guild and a frequent industry spokesman. He has made four tours from Nigeria to Australia for the State Department. Last week he spent two days in Washington testifying before a Senate subcommittee on community-antenna television. As early as 1961, when most of his colleagues were ignoring the Negro revolution, Heston joined a civil rights demonstration in Oklahoma City. In 1963 he publicly attacked Hollywood's "sorry record" of discrimination...
...negotiations between the New York news papers and the unions were immeasurably complicated last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld an N.L.R.B. order forcing members of the New York Publishers Association to break ranks and bargain individually with the printers' union. While the Newspaper Guild's editorial employees have long dealt with each paper separately, the publishers have withstood the nine contentious craft unions largely by managing to bargain on a collective basis...
...winners get no pay, only transitory glory. As Mack says, "People get enough of a thrill just showing off." Of course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...
...publishers, who are willing enough to put all the union members on the payroll initially, but are adamant about the right to fire some of them if advertising and circulation of the new papers do not come up to expectation. Still, everyone agrees that the biggest hurdle was the Guild strike, and that has been all but settled. Pay, fringe benefits, Guild security have all been worked out. And the publishers have agreed to find jobs for 990 Guildsmen-94 more than they originally wanted. Some 500 Guild members have taken their severance pay and retired voluntarily in the dreary...