Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Ore., 245 printers on the Oregonian, News-Telegram and Journal went back to work after their five-day strike failed to win them a seven-hour day. The three papers ceased publication, cut local news off four big newspaper-con-trolled radio stations, persuaded neighboring publishers to send in no additional out-of-town papers. Starved for news and surfeited with months of lumber and teamsters' strikes, Portland had little sympathy for the printers. Portland editorial men, strongly non-Guild, offered no help, so the strikers had little choice but to accept the publishers' pre-strike offer...
...Chicago, at five o'clock one tense morning, near the end of a noisy five-hour mass meeting, 350 American Newspaper Guild members from the Hearst Herald & Examiner and American tore up picket signs, canceled a threatened strike, accepted a one-year Guild contract offered by nervous little Herald & Examiner Publisher Emanuel ("Manny") Levi, who also took over the American fortnight ago. The contract provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial...
Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman...
Five years ago printers on Seattle's three big daily newspapers suddenly went on strike, then found the management had anticipated them. The publishers had recruited strikebreakers by auto, train and plane, quartered them elegantly in downtown hotels including Seattle's swank Olympic Hotel. The three papers did not shut down...
...just stepped in as general manager of the six Northwest units of the Scripps League of Newspapers, including the Portland News-Telegram had to abruptly turn his attention from what he had thought was .going to be his big job, the Seattle Star, embattled by a six-month Guild strike...