NEW YORK STRIKE
Guild Raises Benefits (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 22. The New York Newspaper Guild has announced it is mortgaging its headquarters building to raise an additional 150,000 dollars to provide strike benefits to its members. The guild is one of 10 unions affected by the compositors’ strike that has closed New York’s nine daily newspapers for 46 days. The secretary-treasurer of the New York guild, Mr Michael Potaker, told a membership meeting last night that the branch had paid 1,270,000 dollars in strike benefits to its 5000 members left idle by the walk-out, the Associated Press reported.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 8
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