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When the American Newspaper Guild met in Scranton last June, it served notice that all new contracts must provide a $100 weekly top-minimum for reporters (Herald & Expressmen now get $70*), $50 for employes in other departments. That meant that the Herald & Express would have to shell out a 40% pay boost. To Hearst's 10% offer, the Guild said "no contract-no work," claimed that management's suspension of publication amounted to a lockout. Replied the Herald: "A mass walkout prevents publication. It is not a lockout." At week's end Federal Conciliator Harry C. Malcom...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
Biggest investment was the purchase (for $1,200,000) of a Government-built war plant which had turned out B-29 wings during the war, has been idle ever since. Scranton bought it from the War Assets Corp. and leased it (for $130,000 a year) to its old tenant, Detroit's Murray Corp., for the peacetime output of stoves, kitchen cabinets and sinks...
...break its lease without obligation in the event of labor trouble. Mike Demech, youthful (36), politically-minded (Republican) head of U.A.W.'s Local 18, went along, promptly signed a contract with Murray. In return, Murray will spend $1,500,000 on reconversion, eventually employ 4,000, boost Scranton's income by $8,000,000 a year. For a ghost town, Scranton looked like a pretty lively ghost...