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...broadcasts for the five Pittsburgh radio stations, informed broadcasters that remotes would be permitted on payment into the union's unemployment fund of full union wage for each man before each broadcast. This fee would approximate $10 per man per broadcast. Pittsburgh stations responded by picking up out-of-town bands. Co-signer with local union officers of the Pittsburgh notice was Music Federation National President Joseph N. Weber. Union President Weber left Pittsburgh the day the union served the notice. At week's end broadcasters speculated what city he would visit next...
...Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...Oregonian, News-Telegram and Journal went back to work after their five-day strike failed to win them a seven-hour day. The three papers ceased publication, cut local news off four big newspaper-con-trolled radio stations, persuaded neighboring publishers to send in no additional out-of-town papers. Starved for news and surfeited with months of lumber and teamsters' strikes, Portland had little sympathy for the printers. Portland editorial men, strongly non-Guild, offered no help, so the strikers had little choice but to accept the publishers' pre-strike offer of $9 for a 7?-hour...
...Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Van Every. Mr. Miley had hit Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Miley. For the first blow, Mr. Van Every had this explanation: "Powers swiped a story from the Sun, written by Herbert Gorem and used it in his out-of-town column. ... I asked him if he denied swiping the article. . . He called me a liar so I slapped his face." Mr. Miley said his belligerence arose from befriending Mr. Van Every...
Leahy mentioned the two particular species of bums who, he figures are the most persistent trouble-makers. The first type he said, are the professional ones, natives of Cambridge. But the second type, the out-of-town part-timers, give most annoyance, he said. "They come mostly from Brighton and Brookline, and they come to Cambridge because Harvard is easy-pickings," he stated...