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...thunderstruck strikers, members of the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, hurried outside. Sure enough, their picket line had melted away. There was no longer a Philadelphia Record for them to picket. Tired of a fight that nobody seemed able to win, impulsive, New Dealing Publisher J. David Stern had shut up shop and sold out. The buyer: conservative Robert McLean, head of the rich Evening Bulletin and president of the Associated Press...
...Guild had singled out Dave Stern for a knockdown, drag-out fight. As a self-proclaimed friend of labor, Stern might more easily be embarrassed into signing than Philadelphia's two other press lords. The Guild had made identical demands (including $100 a week for experienced newsmen) on Walter Annenberg, head of the Inquirer. Annenberg, like Stern, had turned them down-but the Guild let Annenberg alone, and struck Stern's Record, and his Camden Courier and Post, across the Delaware River...
Fair Warning. Much to their surprise, Stern fought back hard. A handful of executives managed to get out the paper without the 580 strikers. The Stern papers never missed an edition. Stern sent the Guild a warning: "I want to be fair," he wrote, "but I will not be coerced. If this business cannot be operated on a reasonable basis of give-&-take, then it is not worth operating." The Guild backed down from $100 to $88 in its demands, and Stern upped his offer from $68 to $75. That was as close as they...
Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...
...week's end the still-bewildered Guild announced that its strike was still on, against whoever tried to resume publication. Yet national Guild leaders knew that they had suffered a major blow. They had pulled the trigger on Dave Stern, and the gun had backfired...