Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspaper-strike season is upon the land. Detroit's two dailies were shut down nine weeks ago over a wage dispute that shows no signs of coming to an end. For five weeks the American Newspaper Guild has been picketing Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, but the Herald-Examiner has hired non union personnel and continues to pub lish. Annoyed by this, out-of-work union men journeyed to San Francisco, where they set up "informational" picket lines around another Hearst paper, the San Francisco Examiner. Mailers, who had been negotiating with the Examiner, promptly walked...
There is talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs...
...days a week and skip weekends so as not to compete with the Sunday News.* Likely contributors include Old Herald Tribune Hands Eugenia Sheppard, Dick Schaap and Judith Crist. The News hopes to avoid depleting its own staff and recruit almost entirely from the outside. So far, the Newspaper Guild has responded favorably. "We won't put roadblocks into the launching of the paper," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, who is happy to have some new jobs...
...playwright and one of the craft's shrewder business guardians; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Although several of his 29 works (Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva) became Broadway successes between 1902 and 1938, Middleton's most enduring script-written while he was Dramatists' Guild president from 1927 to 1929-is entitled the Minimum Basic Agreement, which still governs the theater's royalty system...
Columnist Drew Pearson suggested that Smith should be investigated because he had been elected Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild, "a known Communist front," and because he had attended the second anniversary of Castro's revolution and returned "singing Castro's praises." Smith did not know of the Act "and if I had I would not have registered," he says. The case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court and an unfavorable decision would have meant thirty years in jail, but the Court ruled the law unconstitutional...