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Since April 20, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Baltimore Sun and other unions refused to cross the picket line, Baltimore has had no newspaper worthy of the name. The city's only other daily, Hearst's News-American, shut down in support of its competitor, and by last week a disheartened NLRB examiner saw no sign of an end to the strike. Management and the Guild, said he, "are at a total stalemate. If it isn't settled soon, I think it'll go on for a long time. At the bargaining sessions, they...
Acerbic Speech. Naturally, Hollywood was anxious to see the Eastern Medusa, and the Hollywood Publicists' Guild invited Mrs. Crist to address a luncheon in Beverly Hills last month. If there was an outstretched hand, she not only disdained it; she bit it. Following Frank Sinatra's light and witty talk on his life and loves ("Must have had six gag writers," mused Crist), she plunged into an acerbic speech: "Back where I come from, Hollywood is a dirty word." Said an aggrieved 20th Century-Fox publicist: "She is a snide, supercilious, sour bitch. The thing she would hate...
...first time in 128 years, Baltimore was without a newspaper. After six weeks of name-calling negotiations, the 728-man Newspaper Guild struck the Sun. The paper managed to limp along for three days last week with a skeleton staff. Then the drivers and printers refused to cross the picket lines; and the morning, evening and Sunday Suns were forced to shut down. Baltimore's only other paper, Hearst's News-American, also closed down in support...
...battle is over union security and what Baltimore reporters call "the D.C. gap." The Sun management pays Guild reporters a top minimum of $150 a week, compared with the $190 that Guild reporters get in nearby Washington. In the past, Baltimore's Guild went along with management's offers, but this year it got tough. Spurred on by the more powerful Washington chapter, it reorganized as a Washington local. It also imported a veteran Washington negotiator, a move the company denounced as a "Washington takeover." The company's last offer was a $10 boost in minimum...
...John J. Gaherin, the seasoned professional who had been hired to handle the publishers' negotiations (TIME, Feb. 26), it was a disappointing decision. It was Gaherin who had been empowered to tell the Guild and the others that the papers simply could not afford more than $10.50. It also was Gaherin who had been spokesman for the publishers' promise that the printers would not get a penny more. And now Gaherin had to pass the word that the Publishers Association had backed down, that it had broken its promise and that Powers had won. "It was collective bargaining...