Word: guilds
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When 110 American Newspaper Guildsmen struck the Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator last August, chances were that they did not even consider the possibility of setting an endurance record for newspaper walkouts. All they wanted was to bring certain part-time circulation personnel under the Guild contract. But by last week, Youngstown's stubborn Guildsmen were well on their way to earning an unenviable title for forcing the longest shutdown in U.S. newspaper history...
Since 1939, the title has belonged to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where a Guildsmen's strike against the three dailies then being published gagged the papers for 174 days. That performance was improved by the Guild in 1954, when it shut Wilkes-Barre's Record and Times-Leader Evening News for 181 days. Until Youngstown, second-place honors were held by Springfield, Mass., where a typographers' strike closed the jointly published Daily News, Union and the Republican for 144 days in 1946-47.* Youngstown's strike, which has forced the paper to produce a limited edition available...
Before the city's newspaper shutdown finally ended after a record 134 days. Publisher Dworkin had boosted his reporters' bony salaries to Guild scale, [ and had himself grown surprisingly prosperous. Last week Dworkin and his four partners had a $500,000 profit to show for their experience. The short-term publisher put the Daily Press's final issue to bed without regrets...
Frankly, Murphy was no great shakes at the box office, a fact well realized by his boss, MGM's Louis B. Mayer. But Mayer liked Murphy for other reasons. As a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild, Murphy had helped clean out left-wingers and labor racketeers who had infiltrated the movie industry. Along the way, Murphy dropped his Democratic affiliation and became a Republican. Mayer, an ardent Republican himself, had heard Murphy deride Democrats, and he liked the cut of George's gibe. He encouraged Murphy to take on after-dinner speaking assignments. Before...
Annie's incorrigible tendency to climb soapboxes has earned her a host of real-life enemies to match those who pursue her on the funny page. She has been castigated by the pulpit, educators, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip. The high crime rate in Little Orphan Annie periodically produces other defectors...