The Newspaper Guild began dickering last week for a new contract with the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 224,239). It got some bad news. Associate Publisher Bob Smith told the Guild that staffers would get small raises, but that 53 employees (ten of them newsmen) would have to be fired to economize. He made it clear that unless the Guild agreed, the News might have to shut up shop.
The Guild talked management into keeping at least nine of the 53 (all janitors), and reluctantly agreed to the dismissal of some of the others. No Newsman need have been surprised that his...
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