Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in former years, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...four years, the biggest metropolitan newspaper-reading public in the U.S. was left without a daily paper to read. After months of wrangling with New York City publishers, members of the typographical union walked out. Only a month before, the New York dailies settled with the American Newspaper Guild, signing a contract that raised wages an average of $8 a week over two years, after an eight-day strike at the Daily News, largest U.S. daily. But that settlement was not enough for the typographers, and the city's daily combined run of 5,700,000 papers...
...typographers demanded twice the amount the publishers settled for with the Guild, plus shorter hours and new fringe benefits, including increased vacations. When the walkout came, some publishers put the blame squarely on Bertram A. Powers, 40, tough president of the New York Typographical Union No. 6. They charged that Powers is trying to make a name for himself with a successful strike against the big-city dailies. According to this reasoning, Powers deliberately set his union's demands at an unacceptable high. Said one disgusted publisher: "Powers wants a deed to the premises...
Cleveland's two daily newspapers were hopefully getting ready to rev up their presses following a strike that has blacked out that city's news-by-reading since Nov. 29. Two unions-the American Newspaper Guild and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters-had shut down the morning Plain Dealer and the afternoon Press & News after coming to a stalemate in negotiations on job security and wage increases. At week's end, a local citizens' committee talked the drivers into returning to work and was waiting for assent from the Guild. All told, the strike cost Cleveland...
...News strike necessarily mean an end to trouble. The nine printing craft unions found the terms accepted by the Guild "not satisfactory." Said Bertram A. Powers, president of Typographers Local No. 6: "It would be a colossal mistake for the publishers to expect to impose this settlement on the craft unions." This was a frank threat that New York's seven dailies may be in for further problems next month, when most of the trade union contracts expire...