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Well, the strike occurred and here we were suddenly walking into the office surrounded by pickets, and on the day of the strike The Wall Street Journal came out with a story they'd been working on for months. Which was about ninety percent supplied by Guild members, ten percent by management. That really infuriated me.

Q:

Did you talk to anyone at The Journal?

Andrew Heiskell:

Yeah, I knew this piece was coming up. I knew how it was going to be written. I talked to somebody at the Journal, I forget who. I said, you're falling into a trap, but they went ahead. The people who stood around the picket line were not only not recognizable by me, but not recognizable by most of the editors. And practically all of the key people stayed in. We filled in gaps with management personnel, or people from the publishing side. The publishing side was not organized then, or now. And we were able, not only to operate, but, everybody was astounded because the first issue came out and it looked better than the previous issues which had five times as many editorial employees. This was a great shock for the union, and to the union membership. They were convinced that if they were out there on the picket line what was going to come out in the magazine was just gonna be full of misprints and so on, so on.

Q:

Let me refresh your memory again on some of the content on of that strike. I'll read to you from Prendergast. Apparently it talked about the risks of such a change, this is quote, “are high. We would be asking an employee to exchange a guaranteed increase





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