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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This will make Emperor Hirohito the world's Sub-Sea Lord. Japanese, as they read this proud news, found last week in Tokyo rotogravure sections an appropriate picture of the coming Sub-Sea Lord's youngest brother Prince Takahito almost totally submerged, swimming his horse across a river in Japan's latest military maneuvers (see cut). Britain, the U. S. and Japan have now all given notice that they are retaining in their navies numbers of old warships which were originally to have been scrapped under the London Treaty...
Last March, when the strike was six weeks old, the News management offered a settlement, in the form of a standard employment policy developed with other Milwaukee newspapers. It included restoration of the five-day week, minimum wages, vacations with pay, dismissal notice with pay, sick leave with pay. This offer was rejected by the Guild because the Hearst management would not agree to its being witnessed by Milwaukee's Federated Trades Council. In time's course, while Guildmen and sympathizers busily made deep cuts in News circulation and advertising, the national Guild organization joined the American Federation...
Result was that News Publisher John H. Black brought out the old March "employment policy," this time agreed to let it be witnessed by the Trades Council, added a few other concessions. On its part, the Guild agreed to start at once rebuilding the lost lineage and advertising of the News...
Last week the American Newspaper Guild's seven-month strike of 24 editorial workers against William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News came to a peaceful conclusion. Only twelve Guildmen had stuck it out since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...
Said International Guild Secretary Jonathan Eddy: "We regard the News management's verbal agreement through an intermediary group as a contractual obligation on the part of the Hearst management. . . . When they went out. men of long experience were working for as little as $15 and $18 a week. Now men of three years' experience are promised a minimum of $40 per week...