Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual convention of the 24,766-member Guild, meeting in Washington, B.C., did not decide where the union would publish its first general newspaper. But the delegates appropriated $50,000 or "Project X," and set up a committee see where the paper-or papers-should be started. The Guild's idealistic plan: to get other unions to back Guild newspapers with funds and subscriptions, but to keep their editorial policies (though prolabor) free from "the vagaries of union politics." Commented the New York Daily News, with tolerant sarcasm: NICE IDEA, GENTS...
...with more than 1,000 of the day's editorial and mechanical crews absent, Executive Editor Wood admitted defeat. He announced that the W-T & S would not publish that day. For the first time in Guild history, it had succeeded in shutting down a struck New York paper. The big points at issue were job and union security and wages. The Guild wanted the right to arbitrate any "economy" dismissals, and a virtual Guild shop, i.e., nine out of ten eligible employees must be Guild members. Management refused to arbitrate, and offered to maintain the existing proportion...
Columbia University had just completed the first comprehensive study (which Harper will publish next month) of New York's Puerto Ricans. Columbia men surveyed 1,113 Puerto Rican families comprising 5,000 people. They found that one out of every three had been on relief at one time or another. They found a willing people, beset by all kinds of difficulty. "The opportunities for advancement seem increasingly narrow for the poor, the uneducated, and 'the foreign,' " said Columbia's report...
Earlier in the meeting the Council approved a new organization, "The Sporting Weekly," a publication which will run detailed news stories and feature material about the House and Yard intramural program. Neal R. Shulman '53, who will direct the project, said he expects to publish eight pages each week...
...something--anything--just publish a photograph! Henrik Krogius...