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...year-old daily. As publisher he installed Richard H. Amberg, who boosted local coverage, gave big play to public-service projects. In the process, Amberg shuffled some job assignments, replaced few staffers who left the paper. These changes convinced the St. Louis unit of the American Newspaper Guild that the Newhouse management was going in for a wholesale head-lopping. Last February, deeply suspicious of Newhouse, 332 members stalked off their jobs...
Positions of Strength. Both sides considered themselves in strong positions. The St. Louis guild is aggressive and well heeled, over the years has brought minimum newspaper salaries to a scale second only to New York. With members drawing up to $80 a week strike pay, the guild says that only four have reported switching to new, permanent jobs, only 10% have taken part-time jobs to last out the strike. Last week the guild laid plans to put out its own morning daily...
...transferring Globe executives temporarily to other jobs within his chain, has managed to cut his out-of-pocket strike costs to some $20,000 a month. At that rate, with a dozen other moneymaking papers in his string, Newhouse can afford to hold out indefinitely. With the guild demanding to know in advance of Newhouse's reorganization plans so it can intercede for affected members, Newhouse refuses, insists on a free hand to make operational changes for efficiency's sake. "I'm not optimistic about an agreement," said Newhouse las.t week. "The strike might...
...Syracuse, his Republican Post-Standard scraps with his Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal. One notable exception to his hands-off policy is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he replaced a dozen top editorial staffers, slashed non-editorial expenses and personnel, eventually reaped a bitter strike by the American Newspaper Guild (TIME, March 9), which was 28 days old last week, has so far cost Newhouse more than $1,000,000 in ad revenue. Characteristically, Newhouse at week's end was confident of an early settlement and new success for the Globe-Democrat...
Publisher Newhouse said flatly that the Guild's insistence on a guaranteed pension plan forced the deal on the creaking Globe. "We had no choice," he said. "They had a gun at our heads...