Word: schleppey
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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During a long strike, the bills for Schleppey's services have given some publishers heavy deficits. It took Schleppey several months to break the back of the I.T.U. strike at the Grand Junction (Colo.) Sentinel, and an ex-bookkeeper for the paper recalls: "I used red ink for a long, long time." In the solidly unionized city of Haverhill, the I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb...
...Hire. Strikebreaker Bloor Schleppey (Bloor was his mother's maiden name*) was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., got a law degree from Indiana University in 1912, then broke into the newspaper business in 1916 on the short-lived Milwaukee Daily News (Schleppey claims he was managing editor; oldtimers remember him as a reporter). In the next years, Schleppey worked for the New York World and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, put in a term as a Washington reporter for the Hearst chain. In 1934 he went to work for the Indianapolis Publishers Association and started his career as a labor...
Last year Schleppey tried to retire to his 150-acre farm, but the composing-room wars in Massachusetts brought him back on the job. This summer Schleppey will have a cataract removed from his left eye, afterwards wants to do nothing but paint pictures and write a book on modern art. But for the time being, Strikebreaker Schleppey is still up for hire. Says he: "I'll never let these publishers down as long as I'm active...
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