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Walter W. Herrmann, a CWA representative in District 1 for 30 years, died suddenly at St. Peter’s Hospital, near Albany, N.Y., on May 13, after being stricken at home. Herrmann was 79.

Hollywoods Ad Strikes Out

Hollywood’s bad taste hit a new low recently in its fight against members of the Screen Actors Guild, who are striking over pay for work on commercials.

An unfair labor charge filed by Alliance@IBM/CWA supporters and CWA Local 1120 is upheld by a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge, who ruled that IBM wrongly tried to stop workers from displaying pro-union signs on their vehicles in the company parking lots at the East Fishkill a

John Kulstad, assistant to three CWA executive vice presidents, has retired.

Bob Corbey was in grade school when he discovered the mysterious shoe boxes under his father’s bed.
He peeked inside and was thrilled by what he found — hundreds of photographs on glass slides taken as early as the 1890s.