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Last week, as it has to most businesses, the first strike came to a major U.S. bank, the Brooklyn Trust Co. What touched it off was the discharge of three employees who were members of C.I.O.'s left-wing Financial Employees Guild, which has been trying to organize the bank. (The union claimed that 65% of the employees got $35 a week or less, and even had to buy their own pencils.) As a starter, the union massed about 150 pickets-many from other unions-outside the bank's main office. A number of them got their heads...
...over 1,250,000. Thomas B. Costain is the man "who gave you The Black Rose" (sales 1,344,000). Now each gives the Renaissance a lush and wordy going-over. The Moneyman, Book-of-the-Month Club special "midsummer" choice,* is 15th Century France. Prince of Foxes, Literary Guild choice for August, is 16th Century Italy...
Unwanted Advice. Murray did not help his chances by his choice of a convention speaker. He invited Nathaniel R. Howard, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Cleveland's middle-roading News. Nat Howard criticized what he called the Guild's "smear tactics" in strikes. Said Howard: "Guild members have widely attacked the integrity and public intentions of the newspaper [in a strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul...
Everything that Murray brought forth was quickly beaten. He wanted to make the presidency a paid job. He also wanted to give the Guild's International Executive Board a veto power over local strikes. Both proposals were defeated...
...Guild's Right-Left split remained unhealed after Sioux City, but it looked as if Harry Martin would be top dog in the race to be president. And there was no doubt now who was the Guild's strong man. He was burly, closemouthed, onetime Make-Up Editor (Oakland. Calif. Post-Enquirer) Sam Eubanks...