Wire Service Guild Approves New U.P.I. Contract, 337 to 305
Date: 12 May 1978
Wire Service Guild votes to accept proposed 25-mo nation-wide contract with UPI (S)
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Date: 12 May 1978
Wire Service Guild votes to accept proposed 25-mo nation-wide contract with UPI (S)
Date: 12 May 1978
Daniel Burstein, ed of Chicago-based Marxist newspaper The Call, who led delegation of Western reporters on visit to Cambodia, says Govt indicated it would open borders to similar visits by 'unsympathetic' Amer reporters; says published repts of widespread atrocities were result of 'massive propaganda' effort by CIA (S)
Date: 12 May 1978
By DEIRDRE CARMODY Special to The New York Times
Deirdre Special
Comment on States News Service, Washington, DC, which has acquired its competitor Capitol Hill News Service for $1,300; combined news services have circulation of 3.7 million and write for 77 newspapers, which makes them biggest nationwide local wire out of Washington; Leland Schwartz, founder and dir of States News Service, and David Hoffman, head of Capitol News Service, comment; illus (M)
Date: 12 May 1978
NLRB files charge of unfair labor practices against Newspaper Guild, based on what bd says is union's refusal to accept resignations from members at Daily News; case could have implications for unions and mgls across US, since many contracts require union membership as condition of continuing employment; 12 members at News, 68 at Times and about 35 at Post offered their resignations last Feb and March, before contracts between newspapers and 9 unions expired; guild sent preferred resignations back without comment, while enclosing copy of its const, which says that no resignation may be accepted 'when strike or lockout appears imminent' or is under way; guild atty Philip D Tobin says citywide exec com will meet to consider all resignation offers, in meeting that had been scheduled before NLRB complaint; NLRB office, with Winifred D Mono as dir, issued its complaint on basis of charges by News last April 6; NYC Publishers Assn exec dir H J Kracke says Times and News informed paperhandlcrs union that newspapers are setting July 4 weekend deadline for new contract agreement (M)
Date: 13 May 1978
Tornadoes hit various parts of Mo, Ill, Ark and Ky, injuring 4 in Mo, destroying or damaging homes and causing widespread power outages (S)