Word: guildsmen
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Upon entering this bath of antiquity, it is immediately obvious that one has stepped back in time to a place long forgotten. An era of Americana which hearkens back to the days of skilled iron work and detailed engravings to pride the finest guildsmen...
Bloodied but unbudged, Bailey and a small cohort refuse to acknowledge that the strike is over. He harasses the Guildsmen, intimidates management and dreams of emptying a truck full of link outside the newspaper's offices. Dreams are in fact what Bailey is largely about: "A man could act on dreams as he acted upon thought. A man could act upon delusions as he acted upon dreams. They would have only a private validity. No one would be able to accept them; but neither could anyone negate them...
There is talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs...
...World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...
...circulation of the new papers do not come up to expectation. Still, everyone agrees that the biggest hurdle was the Guild strike, and that has been all but settled. Pay, fringe benefits, Guild security have all been worked out. And the publishers have agreed to find jobs for 990 Guildsmen-94 more than they originally wanted. Some 500 Guild members have taken their severance pay and retired voluntarily in the dreary months since the strike started, so only 290 out of the combined staffs of 1,780 will be dismissed...