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Last week, the American Newspaper Guild signed contracts with four publishers:

P:In Sioux City, five minutes before the polls closed in Iowa's primary election, Guildsmen in the Tribune sat down in the news room and in the Woodbury County election precincts in which they had been stationed. Within 80 minutes, a contract was signed. Among its provisions: Guild shop for editorial and business office employes, no discharges for economy for four months, vacations with pay after one year's service. Wage schedules, which the Guild refused to incorporate in the contract, were posted on the bulletin board. Typical wages: for reporters less than six months $16, after six months $18, after two years $24; for stenographers and clerks less than one year $12, after one year $13, after two years $14.

P:Earlier the same day, the Sioux City Journal had signed a similar contract.

P:In Manhattan, after threats of a strike, the Hearst Daily and Sunday Mirror signed a one-year contract with the New York Newspaper Guild covering 450 editorial and commercial department employes. Among the provisions: pay increases for 360 employes, no pay cuts during the life of the contract, five-day, forty-hour week, severance pay.

P:In Manhattan, the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram under contract with the New York Guild since April 1937, signed a new one-year agreement covering 550 employes and including for the first time all commercial department employes.

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