Word: guildsmen
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Worried by well-founded rumors of an imminent merger of the World-Telegram and Journal-American that might put 600 Guild members out of work, Murphy also wants a pledge from the Times that it will hire some of his displaced Guildsmen. And he wants management to guarantee that no Guildsman will lose his job except by attrition: by quitting or retiring. The Times has given such a guarantee to the I.T.U., but is willing to give it only to those Guild members hired as full-time employees before March 31, 1965, the date of expiration of the last contract...
...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. 12; the Herald Tribune and Journal-American Guildsmen have also voted to strike but have not set a date...
When 110 American Newspaper Guildsmen struck the Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator last August, chances were that they did not even consider the possibility of setting an endurance record for newspaper walkouts. All they wanted was to bring certain part-time circulation personnel under the Guild contract. But by last week, Youngstown's stubborn Guildsmen were well on their way to earning an unenviable title for forcing the longest shutdown in U.S. newspaper history...
Since 1939, the title has belonged to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where a Guildsmen's strike against the three dailies then being published gagged the papers for 174 days. That performance was improved by the Guild in 1954, when it shut Wilkes-Barre's Record and Times-Leader Evening News for 181 days. Until Youngstown, second-place honors were held by Springfield, Mass., where a typographers' strike closed the jointly published Daily News, Union and the Republican for 144 days in 1946-47.* Youngstown's strike, which has forced the paper to produce a limited edition available...
Even if Youngstown's Guildsmen hold out long enough to cop the national title, they will have to go some to unseat the North American champions. On June 4, typographers struck Montreal's La Presse, a French-language daily that is the city's biggest (circ. 253,607). Having come to terms with the strikers, La Presse went back on the newsstands at the turn of the year-just 214 days after it stopped publishing...