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Minor Inconvenience. In New York City, the strikebound 10% were advised to use police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with...
Last week in Camden, whose strikebound Courier and Post await a buyer, the Guild started a daily of its own. The 3? Camden Free Press, printed 30 miles away in Wilmington, started out with a 30,000 press run, plenty of ads, a non-salaried staff, a Guild shop...
...hundred and forty thousand telephone employees have voted to walk out early next month. The Nation's basic industries--steel and coal--will be fortunate indeed if they are not strikebound when the company-union contracts expire on April 30 and March 31 respectively. And last week, as the index of wholesale prices jumped seven points, opening a way through which the cost of living may leap to fantastic new levels, organized labor grew restive. Almost all of the big unions, especially those in the rubber and automobile industries, are expected to ask for higher wages...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
...composing room of the strikebound Philadelphia Record stalked a squad of grim-faced A.F.L. printers. They marched across the street to Rosen's saloon, a hangout for Record workers. In the bar, they walked up to a group of strikers, tossed them the proofs of a statement that was running on Page One. Said one bitter printer: "Well, you guys have finally managed to close the paper...