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Since April 20, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Baltimore Sun and other unions refused to cross the picket line, Baltimore has had no newspaper worthy of the name. The city's only other daily, Hearst's News-American, shut down in support of its competitor, and by last week a disheartened NLRB examiner saw no sign of an end to the strike. Management and the Guild, said he, "are at a total stalemate. If it isn't settled soon, I think it'll go on for a long time. At the bargaining sessions, they...
Union members, to be sure, no longer get the old spark from their once fiery papers, nor do they read them as fervently as they did in the past. "It was never a problem to dramatize a picket line," explains Justice Editor Leon Stein, "but how do you dramatize a tax cut?" On the other hand, union members now read their papers for much the same reasons that other people read the commercial press: for information and for entertainment. "In the '20s and '30s," recalls a Manhattan ladies' garment worker, "there were just two classes of society...
...Selma because God is moving in history, and here is the great historicultural event of our day-the racial revolution-coming to a crisis. God is there because God grows in history, demanding me to come.' Where is God now? Is he on one side of the picket line? Or is he on both perhaps? To find him remains the problem...
...first time in 128 years, Baltimore was without a newspaper. After six weeks of name-calling negotiations, the 728-man Newspaper Guild struck the Sun. The paper managed to limp along for three days last week with a skeleton staff. Then the drivers and printers refused to cross the picket lines; and the morning, evening and Sunday Suns were forced to shut down. Baltimore's only other paper, Hearst's News-American, also closed down in support...
Civil rights advocates among the clergy who prefer picket lines to preaching are skeptical about the worth of Billy's Southern crusade. "I think my ministry is a little bit different from marching," answers Billy, who believes that the church must cleanse itself before attacking secular ills. "I've said often that the most segregated hour of the week is 11 o'clock Sunday morning. We can't point an accusing finger at the secular world when the churches are not integrated...