Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew Armstrong, vice president of the A. F. of L.'s well-intrenched Printing Pressmen's Union. Treasurer Armstrong's money raising devices are a 10? annual levy per member on the affiliated unions, a 50? annual levy per member on district organizations. An-other $70,000 was raised for A. L. P. by a Citizen's Finance Committee headed by liberal...
...Long Island Press (circ.: 71,341) in Jamaica thought his strike troubles were over when he signed an agreement with the American Newspaper Guild early last week. But when he discharged 27 returned strikers for "reasons of economy," the rest walked out again. An editorial picket line scuffled with pressmen, kept most of them out of the building. At week's end Publisher Hofmann announced that the Press was involuntarily suspending publication, first time in its 118 years...
...troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them from labor unions urged the appointment of that eminent owner of a 30,000-acre Tennessee farm and hanger-on of the New Deal, Major George Leonard Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation." Another batch of telegrams favored Mr. McReynolds and, strangely, many of them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning wondered why, friends in Washington soon told him. Representative Sol Bloom, who five years...
...notch business leader in attendance. Prime reason for Big Business' boycott of this first post-Election attempt to devise a substitute for NRA was that the Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation is big, smooth, hairy-fisted Major George Leonard Berry, who is also longtime president of International Pressmen and Assistants Union...
...order a member of the Guild to write that two and two make five, and fire him without notice if he disobeys, just as I can fire him for drunkenness or any other good and sufficient cause. . . . More than 90% of your members have contracts with typographical, pressmen's and stereotypers' unions. . . . Will you name one instance where any of these mechanical unions has presumed to dictate to a publisher what should or should not be printed in his news or editorial columns? Has anyone ever brought up the issue of the freedom of the press...