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...Seattle, however, Publisher Hearst's Post-Intelligencer did not appear on newsstands at all last week. When local members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen...
...test the constitutionality of some of its other measures, friends of the National Labor Relations Act passed by Congress last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' fledgling union with which AP had just refused to bargain...
...process was simple. Staffmen wrote and edited their copy much shorter than usual. Expert stenographers typed it in two-column measure, tapped out headlines on special Remington portables with extra-large letters. Editors then pasted stories and headlines upon heavy cardboards the size of a newspaper page. Staff cartoonists inked in column-rules, dashes, decorations. Clippings from back numbers were pasted into place for the mastheads, weather reports, departmental headlines, etc. The whole was photo-engraved, cylinder plates cast, sent to press...
...further dismissals "without cause" for the present, no hiring of new newsmen for 30 days. He refused. Egged on by President Broun, the Newark Guild called a strike on the Ledger, the first movement of its kind by the Guild against any large metropolitan newspaper. Of 52 staffmen (exclusive of the managing editor and his assistant) 46 walked out, according to the Guild. The local newsdealers' association helped with pamphlets flaying Publisher Russell. Then the publisher offered to arbitrate...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...