Word: guildsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business Office of the New York Times, brought suit against the American Newspaper Guild to force it to recover strike-benefit payments. Rogoish argues that the Guild did not call the strike (it was led by typographers), and thus had no right to authorize strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor...
...wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...
...Guild. The I.T.U., like the publishers, has the wherewithal to last out a long strike. The Guild does not. On Monday, the Guild was forced to take the drastic step of mortgaging its headquarters to meet its obligations to its members. At the meeting where the decision was made, Guildsmen loudly booed the name of Bertram Powers...
...Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...
...lost much of its independence and local voice. At the end it employed not a single fulltime editorial writer, relying instead on canned Hearst editorials sent out from New York; news-side staffers were assigned to write occasional local editorial comment on the side. A few of the striking Guildsmen will get their jobs back, although the Sentinel's new owner has no Guild contract with its own staff. In fact, the Journal is owned by its employees, under a stock-purchase plan set up several years after the death of Journal founder Lucius W. Nieman...