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...complications developed yesterday in the New York newspaper strike, according to the Associated press, as mallers declared they would get return to work without a contract on if the publishers' dispute with the Newspaper Guild is settled. For the duration of the strike, the CRIMSON will carry an increased amount of world and national news...
...I.T.U. has accused the Guild of "riding piggyback" on the I.T.U. Said Elmer Brown: "The Guild cannot close a single newspaper by striking alone." On the eve of the I.T.U. convention in Washington two weeks ago, top officers of the typographers and the Guild met to try to patch over some of their differences. About all they accomplished was to agree vaguely to strive for better communication between the unions and to meet again this month. Meanwhile, the Guild unit at the New York Times has voted to strike if a "satisfactory" contract has not been reached by Sept...
Monastic & Monolithic. It will not be easy to settle a dispute between two unions that differ widely in tradition, temperament and tactics. Basically, the oldest union in the newspaper business is pitted against the youngest. The 113-year-old I.T.U. looks down on the 32-year-old Guild as an upstart. The I.T.U. is a world unto itself, a "monastic and monolithic world," in the words of one top labor arbitrator. All its members work at essentially the same job, tend to share the same interests, see each other socially. The union provides almost cradle-to-grave security: a training...
...Guild enjoys no such cohesion. A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other. Though newsmen tend to champion the union movement in theory, they are hard to organize-as are most white-collar workers. Restless by nature, newsmen are generally unwilling to submit to the discipline of a union shop. Few Guild contracts call for a full union shop, but almost all I.T.U. contracts do. While the Guild has helped to raise the general salary scale, its "minimums" have tended in fact to become "maximums...
Devouring Junior. Both unions give lip service to the idea of merging with each other. But many officers of the 30,000-member Guild realize that if they were to merge, their union would be swallowed by the more militant, disciplined, 120,000-member I.T.U. Says New York Guild Executive Vice President Thomas Murphy: "The I.T.U. thinks of merger as a return to Father's house." As matters stand, the Guild will have a tough time influencing the typographers to accept automation in hope of preserving some editorial jobs...