Press and Communications

Abstract

Labor unrest highlighted the newspaper scene in the winter of 1946-47 as major daily publications in half a dozen metropolitan centers suspended operations or continued on emergency manpower while unions representing typographers, carriers and editorial workers bickered with employers over contracts adjusted to the zooming cost of living. In Jacksonville, Fla, and in Philadelphia the managerial staffs kept the papers going—although by the first of February Publisher J. David Stern exploded a bombshell by selling his strikebound Philadelphia and Camden, N. J., properties. Some labor troubles threatened radio, too, but the prospect for 1947 was a boom year in radio station growth.— W. F. S.