Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters started the strike in the first place, by leading four other shop unions in a walkout April 12−a movement sympathetically, if not enthusiastically, joined by the American Newspaper Guild. As the other unions trickled back to work, the Teamsters stubbornly held out; they settled only after pinching an extra penny or two an hour more than anyone else. The long layoff cost both sides dearly: an estimated $12.5 million in revenue for the papers, some $3,000,000 in wages for the strikers. But the Minneapolis strike raised a question that was even...
...That thump on the front porch this morning," said Phyllis Wudi, a Milwaukee secretary, "was the nicest sound I've heard for eight weeks." The thump was the Milwaukee Sentinel, appearing again after an eight-week American Newspaper Guild strike. But in reality, Hearst's ailing old Sentinel (circ. 192,167) was no more. During the strike it had been sold for $3.000,000 to its independent rival, the afternoon Journal (372,276)-which promptly rushed its new buy back into print, but dropped the Sunday edition...
...single fulltime editorial writer, relying instead on canned Hearst editorials sent out from New York; news-side staffers were assigned to write occasional local editorial comment on the side. A few of the striking Guildsmen will get their jobs back, although the Sentinel's new owner has no Guild contract with its own staff. In fact, the Journal is owned by its employees, under a stock-purchase plan set up several years after the death of Journal founder Lucius W. Nieman...
...prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they are all members of the American Guild of Variety Artists. But A.G.V.A. clearly has done little or nothing to improve their working conditions. Said Stripper Corinne Stein: "The girls were forced to mix, to use sex to get customers to buy drinks. In Cleveland you either 'mix' or get hit over the head." Complaints...
...Faine, national executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, objected to Papp's pessimism on getting federal aid, and predicted that Congress will establish a Federal Advisory Council on the Arts...