NEWSPAPER GUILD WINS CONTRACT, LONG HEARST CHICAGO AMERICAN STRIKE ENDS
Newspaper Guild Wins Contract, Long Hearst Chicago American Strike Ends 17 Months' Struggle Is Over; Called a Labor Epie CHICAGO, ¦ III.—The longest and toughest strike in the history of the...
...Hearst executives had insisted that none of the Herald-Examiner workers could regain their jobs...
...Immediate wage increases are granted some of the returning strikers, and wage issues in the commercial department will be reopened May 7. To Hold Election The ticklish question of the rival AFL unions in the editorial and commercial departments, formed after the strike began, will be settled by an election to be held from three to six months later...
...The walkout was called by Local 52, Luggage Workers Union, affiliated with the Int...
...The 17-month strike of the Chicago Newspaper Guild against Hearst will long remain an epic in the history of labor's fight to win security of employment...
...John L. Lewis to Intervene when conferences broke dowr after six weeks of Intensive bargaining: Kaufman...
...probably higher...
...Last Negotiators Participating in the final negotiations were Ray Edmundson, Illinois district president of the United Mine Workers (CIO), who had been askec by CIO Pres...
...5, 1938...
...Many additional thousand" were donated by unions all over the nation...
...Vice Pres...
...The union spent close to $200,000, of whic)' about $120,000 was raised through assessments on its national membership at the rate of $1 a month...
...Those not rehired will be indemnified for a total of $24,000...
...Harry Woh...
...Called An "Epic" Among those w-.io go back to work are the 8 surviving strikers from the group whose mass firing precipitated the walkout on Dec...
...Don Stevens, and ANG Vie< Pres...
...Having won...
...The contract runs for eight months, expiring on the same date as the editorial contract entered into by the Chicago Editorial Associates (AFL...
...The agreement, covering guild members on the struck paper, provides for reinstatement of 115 of the 167 men and women who remained active throughout the 17-month walk-out...
...Ladies Handbag Pocket-book & Novelty Workers Union (AFL...
...MJton Kaufnan...
...Guild officers pointed out that this would give their union a chance to reorganize and avoid the risk of a sudden election...
...the guild hopes there will be industrial peace and that the guild will find the place in Chicago it occupies in all other major cities of the U. S." Other terms of the settlement, reached in the office of Regional NLRB Director G. L. Paterson, provide for halting the Hearst management's elaborate court attacks on the ANG and cancellation of $5,500 in fines already levied...
...Tht Hearst management admitted In court proceedings a loss of $1,500,000 in advertising revenue through guild boycott activities, but the figure wa...
...Called a Labor Epie CHICAGO, ¦ III.—The longest and toughest strike in the history of the American Newspaper Guild (CIO) enrirdt last week when the Hearst-owned" Herald-American signed a contract...
...The strike was one of the most costly in newspaper history...
...PETERSBURG, Va.—The American Hardware Co., world's largest manufacture of luggage, signed a union agreement after a 10-week strike by 1,200 workers in four local plants...
...Also included are a number of former employes of the Herald-Examiner, Hearst paper that was abandoned in August 1939...
...Thomas Canty oi the Intl...
...Al Jackson of th{ Chicago Newspaper Guild, CNG Exec Sec...
...The guild agreed to withdraw its complaint that the Commercial Associates, another AFL union, was company-dominated, a charge that was recently sustained by the NLRB, In return the Hearst management and the Commercial Associates withdrew their appeal from the NLRB ruling...
...who played a leading role in the settlement...
...Davit Golden of the Intl...
...alsc played an Important part in settling the strike...
...Typographical Union < AF1 suspended) and loral Ptcs...
...ANO Intl...
...Siereotypers nnc Blectrotypers Union (AFL...
...one of the strikers The Chicago printing trades unions led by local Pres...
...Richard Sellers, Pres...
...commented ANG Exec...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
