Word: strikebound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland, where all three of the city's daily newspapers are strikebound, TIME brought the first detailed printed news of the election. As soon as Bill Schroeder opened his news and book store (see cut) on Public Square, a news-hungry crowd rushed in, a customer cried: "Here's TIME!" and the magazine was a quick sellout. It was much the same at other downtown newsstands and neighborhood drugstores. Said the struck Cleveland Press's Editor Louis B. Seltzer: "I sat here reading the election story and found myself more and more amazed. With the speed...
Detroiters had never been so famished for news. For the first time in the city's history, all three dailies-the Detroit Free Press, News and Times-were strikebound. The stereotypers' union had closed the papers over demands that included a full day's pay for any extra work after eight hours, e.g., for turning out Sunday Edition color plates after hours on a weekday. Newsmagazine sales had gone up 30%; out-of-town newspapers were being sold for as much as $1 a copy...
...tell the news, Detroit's Polish-language Dziennik Polski jacked up its press run from 48,600 to 150,000 copies daily, wrapped an 18-page English section around its ten-page Polish editions. A pinch-hitting daily, the Detroit Reporter, was started by newsmen from the strikebound papers with $100 and blessings from the American Newspaper Guild and the Allied Printing Trades Council. At week's end it was printing 100,000 eight-page papers...
LOUIS WOLFSON'S strikebound Capital Transit Co. will be put out of business. President Eisenhower signed into law a bill passed by Congress revoking Capital Transit's franchise to operate in the District of Columbia, and giving the company a year to wind up its affairs. In the meantime, the District Commissioners will negotiate a new wage settlement with striking workers, foot the bill for any loss that Capital Transit might incur during the year because of a pay raise...
...dock strike was a nagging labor problem. To the visiting Russian rowers, it was a singular embarrassment. They could hardly disapprove of such a proletarian maneuver, but there they stood on the shore with their sweeps in their hands, and there were their shells on the deck of the strikebound Soviet freighter Strelna. The regatta at Henley, where they had swept the river only the year before, was only a week away. How could they practice? They were up the Thames, as it were, with a useless set of paddles...