Word: schroth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he bought the Brooklyn Eagle 17 years ago, Publisher Frank D. Schroth took on a sickly paper and a tough labor problem. The Eagle had barely survived a 14-week strike by the Newspaper Guild. Right after he became publisher, Schroth announced: "With careful management and a lot of luck we will revive the Eagle. I sincerely hope to have the friendship of the Guild." Frank Schroth's management and the wartime boom gave the Eagle a semblance of health again; it pushed into the black off and on, and in 1951 won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious...
Last week, on the 47th day of the strike (TIME. Feb. 28), Publisher Schroth admitted that the Guild problem had licked him. He closed the n 4-year-old Eagle "forever." Said Schroth bitterly: "On January 28 the paper had 130,000 circulation . . . and many loyal advertisers. It also had 630 employees. Now it has nothing. No circulation. No advertising. No employees. The consequences of the strike have destroyed the Eagle...
...American Newspaper Guild, which represents newsmen all over the U.S., has long contended that it would never force a wage increase that would put a paper out of business. Last week Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth was trying to put the Guild's contention to one of its rare tests. Four weeks ago the Guild struck the Eagle, and when mechanical-union employees refused to cross the picket line the paper was forced to suspend publication. The Guild demanded the same $5.80 package wage increase that staffers on Manhattan dailies got in the latest round of wage negotiations...
...ailing Eagle (circ. 124,817) offered only $2.40, insisted that it should not be classed with Manhattan papers and should not pay the same scale. Said Publisher Schroth last week: "It is financially impossible for the Brooklyn Eagle to meet the [Guild] demands and survive." Guildsmen, who still remember the bitter 14-week Eagle strike 17 years ago, contend that the Eagle has not proved it is unable to pay-i.e., by showing them the books. If the Eagle is not a New York paper, argued the Guild, why does it pay city-scale wages to its mechanical employees...
...State meet, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, 26-year-old Bob Stout, upset the Bronx Turners' favored Edward Scrobe, to take the all-round title and win the No. 1 Olympic berth on the men's team. A fellow member of Stout's Philadelphia club, wiry Housewife Clara Schroth Lomady, 31, won the all-round honors for women for the fourth year, clinched her No. 1 Olympic spot for the second time...