Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the announcement that the New York Newspaper Guild and the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union had reached agreement "in principle" with the publishers of the World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...
...were the publishers of the city's merged newspapers of a mind to prod the Guild along. For as soon as the package is ratified, the strike will be officially over. The publishers will then be locked in a legal battle with the Printing Pressmen, who insist that their only contracts are with papers that no longer exist. As long as they lack a new contract with the World Journal Tribune, they say, they will not work. That argument is already being contested in the courts, but legal action was suspended while Guild picket lines kept the Pressmen from...
...Europe's third-busiest port (after Rotterdam and London), factories and tank farms are sprouting amid ancient cathedrals and guild halls. Foreign companies have invested $750 million in new plants since 1964, plan some $500 million more over the next three years in a city whose population (654,500) is smaller than New Orleans. This month General Motors laid the cornerstone for a $100 million factory-G.M.'s second in Antwerp-that will be the company's main European assembly point, employ more than 6,000 Belgians and turn out 300,000 Opels a year. Last...
...contraption is achieved by extraneous detail; he is one of those authors who, having informed the reader that some character has picked up a phone, cannot get on with the story before informing the reader that the character has put the phone down. Thorp, his publisher and the Literary Guild (whose June selection it is) are impressed by the book's girth, but no one else should be. The story, about homosexual murder, is unbelievable, the denouement unacceptable. Author Thorp can probably write a readable book if he ever learns to stop answering the telephone...
...further settlement had been created at last. By the end of the week, four other craft unions had settled, and the rest of the craft unions are likely to come around soon. But a speedy end to the strike was by no means assured. It is the Newspaper Guild, after all, that took to the picket lines, and the Guild's demands cannot be met with money alone. The question of seniority in hiring for the new papers has yet to be resolved. Guild Chief Tom Murphy has said that a new contract could be negotiated in 48 hours...