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A new generation of journalists mingled with two giants in the field May 19 at The Newspaper Guild-CWA's annual Freedom Fund Awards banquet, where Walter Cronkite charmed the audience with memories of his 70-year career and Bill Moyers painted a dire picture of freedoms in peril.

Turning up the heat on the Washington Post, area newspaper unions picketed outside the annual shareholders' meeting to draw attention to the paper's refusal to bargain fairly with 400 mailers and helpers represented by CWA.

In the wake of the Bush administration's refusal to act on an AFL-CIO petition aimed at protecting both American and Chinese workers, federation President John Sweeney in May accepted an invitation from China's vice premier for a labor delegation to travel to China to examine working conditions.

After the U.S. Senate cast a bipartisan vote to protect workers' overtime rights against the Department of Labor's assault, House Republicans refused twice in a matter of days in mid-May to allow the issue to come up for debate, let alone a vote.

Scores of CWA families literally followed in President Morton Bahr's footsteps May 16 as he helped lead 4,000 participants in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's three-mile Walk for a Cure in Washington, D.C., Joint CWA-Verizon teams accounted for about 300 walkers and hundreds of other unio