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Last fortnight in Chicago, Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearstpapers, and half-a-dozen other Hearst bigwigs were frantically trying to do something about the gasping Herald & Examiner, struck by the Newspaper Guild and thinned by advertisers. The Herex is a favorite paper of Mr. Hearst's. But Mr. Hearst was not in Chicago...
...Meigs." Two pickets put on gas masks. Last January the Chicago Hearst management and the Guild signed a one-year contract. Now pending are over 60 charges of contract violations preferred by the Guild. Meantime, two new A. F. of L. newspaper unions (Editorial Association of Chicago, headed by Herex Rewrite Man Larry Kelly, and Newspaper Commercial Associates of Chicago) began signing up Hearstlings right & left. The climax came when Publisher Meigs declined to negotiate a new contract with the Guild before the NLRB settled the inter-union squabbles...
Claiming a walkout of more than half the 1,000 employes eligible, the Guild closed 71 of the 91 Hearst home circulation offices the first day. On the second the American advertised "$5 FOR PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted...
...coroner's jury said it was an unfortunate accident. But around the city room of the Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted" by the janitor...
Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued...