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Summary Information
Newspaper Guild. Local 64: Records
1934-1994
- Newspaper Guild. Local 64 (Madison, Wis.)
Mss 896; PH Mss 896; PH Mss 896 (5)
3.0 c.f. (8 archives boxes), 2 posters, 93 photographs, and 2 drawings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, mainly 1970-1979, of the Madison Newspaper Guild, established in 1934 as Local 64 of the American Newspaper Guild. The Guild at first represented employees of both the Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times and after 1947, just employees of the Capital Times. Records consist of correspondence with management and the American Newspaper Guild, incomplete minutes, photographs, administrative records, collective bargaining materials, grievance files, and files from the 1977-1979 strike which resulted in the local's demise. Included is information on the impact of technology; a 1974 grievance resulting from a management imposed ethics code; the 1977 strike's unity committee and the strike newspaper, the Madison Press Connection; efforts to organize employees at WIBA radio; and relations with the Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Association; and research material compiled by the Guild on Capital Times advertising rates and lineage and income as well as financial statements of the Capital Times and of Madison Newspapers, Inc., and its part-owner, Lee Enterprises. Correspondents include Irvin Kreisman, Elliott Maraniss, Miles McMillin, Robert Meloon, Cedric Parker, Matthew A. Pommer, George Stephenson,David Wagner, Diane Woodstock, and David Zweifel.
English
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