Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Newspaper Guild decided last week to teach rebel members the full lesson of its disciplinary powers. For the first time it cracked down really hard on members of the working press who did not like the Guild's kind of unionism...
Presumably no less guilty under Guild bylaws are 40 rebel Guildsmen on the New York Times who petitioned the Labor Board to recognize the same rival A.F. of L. union as their bargaining agent for Times editorial workers. Difference is that the New York Times does not have a "Guild Shop," whereas the Mirror is now negotiating a union contract which will include such a clause. If it is signed, the Guild contract will bind the Mirror management, "upon formal notice from the Guild," to fire employes for the following reasons: 1) if they do not join the Guild within...
...Most recalcitrant" and stiffest-fined of the condemned Mirror rebels, Ruth Phillips, 35, blonde author of three books of fiction, is also the most articulate critic of her accusers. Twelve years on the Mirror, she was a charter Guild organizer, a militant member of the Executive and Grievance Committees. She changed her mind last summer when 18 Mirror Guildsmen unsuccessfully petitioned the National Convention to oust Executives Milton Kaufman and Victor Pasche. Then began the rebel movement for the A.F. of L. American Newspaper Writers Association. A war of nerves followed at the Mirror...
...Reorganized last year, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio (The Rebel Line) is proving what financial housecleaning can do. February gross was $1,599,000, up 14%; operating income...
Pitchforks v. Tanks. At once Premier Antonescu demanded the resignation of Interior Minister General George Petrovicescu for failing to keep order, kicked all Iron Guardists out of the police force. Rebel Guardists barricaded themselves in the Bucharest Prefecture and began firing on the soldiers sent to drive them out. More Guardists in the streets went after Army tanks, jammed the treads with pitchforks and horse blankets. Soon troops opened artillery fire against the rebels, now barricaded in apartment houses, behind overturned busses and taxis...