Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thunderstruck strikers, members of the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, hurried outside. Sure enough, their picket line had melted away. There was no longer a Philadelphia Record for them to picket. Tired of a fight that nobody seemed able to win, impulsive, New Dealing Publisher J. David Stern had shut up shop and sold out. The buyer: conservative Robert McLean, head of the rich Evening Bulletin and president of the Associated Press...
...Guild had singled out Dave Stern for a knockdown, drag-out fight. As a self-proclaimed friend of labor, Stern might more easily be embarrassed into signing than Philadelphia's two other press lords. The Guild had made identical demands (including $100 a week for experienced newsmen) on Walter Annenberg, head of the Inquirer. Annenberg, like Stern, had turned them down-but the Guild let Annenberg alone, and struck Stern's Record, and his Camden Courier and Post, across the Delaware River...
Fair Warning. Much to their surprise, Stern fought back hard. A handful of executives managed to get out the paper without the 580 strikers. The Stern papers never missed an edition. Stern sent the Guild a warning: "I want to be fair," he wrote, "but I will not be coerced. If this business cannot be operated on a reasonable basis of give-&-take, then it is not worth operating." The Guild backed down from $100 to $88 in its demands, and Stern upped his offer from $68 to $75. That was as close as they...
Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...
Members of the Constitutional Committee, of which Weld served as chairman, were: Richard G. Axt '46, William H. Bozman '46, Gordon W. Hedin '46, Roger S. Kuhn '46, Frank T. LeBart '46, Henry Lee '48, Joseph H. Sharlitt '45, and Philip M. Stern...