Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city-room salary slashes, the Guild was nursed through infancy by its fat and rumpled creator, the late famed Scripps-Howard columnist, Heywood Broun. It took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization, welcomed office boys, clerks, janitors, elevator operators, commercial...
...Guild as a craft union of working newsmen, but it did provide some desperately needed muscle. In 1937 it boldly engineered nine strikes, called twelve more in 1938. It wrote its first national contract (with the United Press) in 1938, and by 1941 had pushed membership past 16,000. It also ended one of the sorriest chapters in Guild history: domination by Communist sympathizers. Attracted by the Guild's obvious potential, Red-liners moved in soon after its formation, eventually controlled the national offices. After a bitter fight in 1941, anti-Communists forced through a national referendum that swept...
TRADE. Commonwealth membership is a good way to hold on to markets already achieved. Loans are easier to get in prosperous Britain (see BUSINESS) than in New York, for British bankers are familiar with the problems of such places as Accra and Lagos and Colombo. Tariff preferences and unity in the sterling bloc is another bond (but Canada is a dollar area); India, Pakistan, Malaya and Ghana all keep their balances in London vaults...
Rehearsals will be held each week, beginning this Thursday night, and the Summer Band will give a concert later in the summer session. Membership is open to all students in the Summer School...
...group is not officially or financially a part of the regular Harvard aBnd, but will use its equipment and include several instrumentalists from the Band in its membership...