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After nine weeks of futile negotiations to end the strike on New York's World-Telegram and Sun, Federal Labor Mediator Walter Maggiolo decided the time had come to talk turkey. Said Maggiolo: "The strike has gone too far for either side to win a clear-cut victory. There will have to be a compromise...
Instead of taking up the agenda item, he read a "most urgent" telegram from the North Korean authorities, a denunciation, conveniently in Russian, of "American interventionists . . . barbarous attacks . . . cannibalistic cynicism . . ." It was cut from the same cloth of distortion and falsehood that the Russian delegate had unrolled in all his previous harangues (e.g., the real aggressors in Korea were "American imperialists"; only the Soviet Union desired a "peaceful settlement...
...other hand, Dr. Emil Fuchs, Leipzig professor of religion and father of British Atom Bomb Spy Klaus Fuchs, got off a telegram to the U.N. explaining that everything would be hunky dory if the West would just stop disagreeing with Russia...
...strike against Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun had gone on for seven weeks. Some members of the New York Newspaper Guild last week were fed up. Twenty-two strikers formed the "Guild Committee for Common Sense," dispatched a letter to some 450 fellow strikers, urging an end to the walkout, and started a postcard poll...
...seven weeks, 500 striking members of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had kept Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun (circ. 612,468) from publishing so much as a single edition. The strikers were backed by upwards of 1,000 craft employees. Some 100 nonstriking editorial and commercial employees continued to report for work every day. Early one morning this week, Editor Howard decided to take a drastic step. Howard locked up the plant. Whether the lockout would stick or not was another question and only Roy Howard knew the answer...