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Then came the crusher. Last week the grand jury not only refused to indict Ham Reid but, in an astounding bit of legal beagling, it filed slander charges against three P.A.G. members and five American Pressmen, including Ken Dixon and Publisher Shearman. The accusation: they had "defamed" three of the local gamblers as well as Sheriff Reid, the district attorney, other officials...
...Ottawa, Kans. Daily Herald (circ. 6,194) was just starting its afternoon press run when the flood waters from the Kaw River began lapping at its doors. In the basement, pressmen rigged a block & tackle to hoist the electric press motor above the water, finally gave up the race when the flood kept coming. Then the Herald staff waded waist-deep out of the shop to set up an airplane shuttle service between Ottawa and a printing plant in Chanute, 80 miles away. The Herald didn't miss an edition...
Gone for Good? The strike had been costly for both sides. The 400 striking Guildsmen together with the 1,000 A.F.L. printers, stereotypers and pressmen who had refused to cross Guild picket lines had already lost upwards of $1,000,000 in wages. The World-Telegram and Sim had lost a huge amount in advertising and circulation revenue. But the full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post...
Across the street, little knots of printers, pressmen and stereotypers watched passively, still refusing to cross the lines. Occasionally, the ugly cry of "Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three...
Tree Pruning? Soon there were 700 Guildsmen on the line. Of the 540 W-T & S employees eligible for membership, 400 belonged to the Guild; the rest of the picketers were from other New York Guild units. By 8 a.m., several hundred printers, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers had shown up for work. Although their A.F.L. and independent unions were not on strike, only a handful crossed the orderly picket line. The rest refused to cross, for fear of their "physical safety"-an explanation apparently designed to skirt the Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts and to avoid violating their...