Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jackson. Describing the philosophy of Big Business in Goethe's phrase as "Aristocratic Anarchy," describing the present Recession in the words of Sir Arthur Salter, famed British economist, as "a 'strike of capital' against political action which it fears and dislikes," Bob Jackson declared...
...Guild was a contract guaranteeing that of the 206 strikers, 166 will be rehired, the other 40 fired, given 20 weeks' severance pay. The Guild had demanded, but did not get, a preferential shop. And the Guild put an awful dent in its treasury supporting the strike at $3,000 a week...
Financially the Eagle took the most terrible beating. The Guild's most effective strike activity was a campaign to cut Eagle advertising, conducted with all the originality the newspapermen could give it. Pickets in full dress stalked before Manhattan theatres advertising in the Eagle, a hairy "gorilla" picketed a beauty shop until its distressed owner got an injunction against such tactics. Picketing of Brooklyn and Manhattan stores, plus a "consumers campaign" against national advertisers, undoubtedly cost the Eagle most of the 184,000 lines of advertising it dropped in the past three weeks...
What the Eagle strike seemed to prove was that a publisher could get out his paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...
...material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along with such editorial problems as deciding how much space strikes should take up in community histories, directors were also handicapped by the desertion of their best writers for other jobs; writers were hampered by the possibility that the project would be curtailed, or that the sale of a story...