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Those were mere trinkets compared with his prize, an extremely rare cup-sized tankard, dated 1656 and last sold from the William Randolph Hearst collection in 1939 for $1,400. Shrubsole cheerfully paid $29,000 for it. "A very reasonable price," he gloated. "I've never seen a tankard like this in the 40 years I've been in the business. I saw it when it sold at the Hearst collection, but I didn't have the $1,400 then. Ha, but today I do have the $29,000." Ha, indeed. In the present state of demand...
Looking back, Jimmy Breslin spits at the business that made him. Excepting Millionaire Jock Whitney, who gave him a big play in the now departed New York Herald Tribune, Breslin has only scorn for publishers. "I worked for Newhouse, Scripps-Howard and Hearst-the Sing Sing, Leavenworth and Folsom of American journalism," he says. "People who are working for Newhouse shouldn't have the Guild as their bargaining agent. They should have the Mafia. And they should get a Pulitzer prize for malnutrition...
...Hearst has accomplished exactly what he set out to do: break the local unions. Even before the American Newspaper Guild and the Machinists' Union struck for modest pay raises last December, Hearst had 150 out-of-town strikebreakers on salary, waiting in local motels. His concern was not salaries but union resistance to automation. He had powerful local support from the beginning. Otis Chandler's nonunion and increasingly automated Los Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor...
Heavy Costs. Hearst's victory was not cheap. Strikers followed carrier boys on their routes, noted houses taking the paper, later claimed to have talked 125,000 subscribers into canceling. They persuaded 200 news dealers to stop selling the paper, smashed hundreds of Herald-Examiner vending machines. In all, circulation dropped from 730,000 to 540,000, at a cost to Hearst of about $2,000,000. Advertisements for the year slipped about 7,000,000 lines behind the year before, a loss of at least $7,000,000. Hearst was forced to lower his ad rates, probably losing...
...cost the unions $10,000 a week (pressmen get a minimum of $25 a week, printers and mailers $103). The other 400 have taken full-time jobs, many at smaller newspapers, where pay is often lower than at the Herald-Examiner. Affected families display signs in their home windows: HEARST HURTS THIS HOUSEHOLD...