Guild Gain (Cont'd)

Last summer Roy Wilson Howard, up-from-the-bottom publisher of the New York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that the World-Telegram would negotiate in the "hope and expectation" of arriving at a contract which would "definitely and specifically recognize the Newspaper Guild of New York as the chosen bargaining agent of the World-Telegram employes."

Of the 1,989 U. S. dailies, the Guild is now organized in 201. But these 201 represent top-flight newspapers and in them the Guild now has 5,300 first-rate newshawks carrying its card. A major Guild milestone was last week's announcement from the World-Telegram. It meant that, having lined up Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News) and William Randolph Hearst (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), the Guild was now doing business with the three most important publishers in the land.

* Last week Mr. Howard acquired a new associate in lively Merlin Hall ("Deke") Aylesworth, who will leave the chairmanship of Radio-Keith-Orpheum March 1 to become a Scripps-Howard executive-without-portfolio.

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