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...Long Island Press (circ.: 71,341) in Jamaica thought his strike troubles were over when he signed an agreement with the American Newspaper Guild early last week. But when he discharged 27 returned strikers for "reasons of economy," the rest walked out again. An editorial picket line scuffled with pressmen, kept most of them out of the building. At week's end Publisher Hofmann announced that the Press was involuntarily suspending publication, first time in its 118 years...
...notch business leader in attendance. Prime reason for Big Business' boycott of this first post-Election attempt to devise a substitute for NRA was that the Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation is big, smooth, hairy-fisted Major George Leonard Berry, who is also longtime president of International Pressmen and Assistants Union...
...order a member of the Guild to write that two and two make five, and fire him without notice if he disobeys, just as I can fire him for drunkenness or any other good and sufficient cause. . . . More than 90% of your members have contracts with typographical, pressmen's and stereotypers' unions. . . . Will you name one instance where any of these mechanical unions has presumed to dictate to a publisher what should or should not be printed in his news or editorial columns? Has anyone ever brought up the issue of the freedom of the press...
...their president, scholarly John P. Frey who presented the original charges against the C. I. O. unions, denounced the Lewis bloc for affording Communists a foothold in U. S. labor organizations. At the last minute, since Mr. McGrady could not be present, George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's Union and Federal Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation (NRA plan-maker), rushed to Tampa as the Government's umpire...
...forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted that his organizers dress well and stop at the best hotels. Ed McGrady learned his lesson and today, elegant, with a good cigar in his mouth and the double-breasted manner...