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...year-old Brooklyn Eagle has been for sale ever since Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth closed it down after a 47-day strike of the Newspaper Guild. But no buyers have appeared. One reason they have been scared off is some $750,000 in severance credit, vacation pay, etc., that the union claims the paper owes its 315 striking members, an obligation a buyer might have to take on. Furthermore, a new publisher would face the same labor problems that Publisher Schroth faced (TIME, Feb. 28). The Guild has shown no signs of compromising its original demands, is still picketing...
Fair Warning. Schroth had repeatedly given fair warning that he might be forced to close down. He had said flatly that he was unable to pay the $5.80 two-year package wage increase that Manhattan papers gave this year. Instead, he offered a $2.40 increase. The union replied that Schroth was "chiseling," and offered to take the case to arbitration, but only on the money questions. Schroth insisted that other "fringe benefits" of the Guild contract were important hidden wages, and refused to arbitrate unless the whole contract was subject to review. Said he: the Guild was asking the Eagle...
...York Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy argued that the ten mechanical unions in the Eagle's plant were paid Manhattan scale, "and we can't let Schroth claim: 'I've got enough money for everybody else but I haven't enough for you.'" Schroth replied by pointing out that the mechanical contracts had few of the benefits such as severance pay and sick leave that were in the Guild contract. Mediators tried to bring the two sides into agreement to save the paper, but the area of disagreement was too wide...
...Malignant Problem." When Schroth announced that he was folding the Eagle, Guildsmen at first still considered it "bluff," and continued to picket the plant. They were wrong. Schroth made clear that his decision was "irrevocable." The Eagle and its equipment were put up for sale. Schroth also has a 25-year lease for a brand-new building that the Eagle had expected to move into just before the strike started. (The building now occupied by the Eagle was bought to make way for a Brooklyn civic center.) Publisher Schroth said there was "no one in sight to buy the Eagle...
...first time in more than a century. Manhattan papers promptly began to try to fill the vacuum with Brooklyn supplements and special editions. But there seemed to be few newspaper jobs in Manhattan for the Eagle's 630 staffers on the editorial and mechanical side. Said Publisher Schroth: "The Newspaper Guild presents a malignant problem. This same thing goes on year after year until death comes...