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OWENS v. PRESS PUBLISHING CO.

20 N.J. 537 (1956)

120 A.2d 442

ARTHUR J. OWENS, BERTRAM S. WILSON, IRMA LEWALLEN, CHARLES S. SHAPIRO AND WILLIAM S. PEIFER, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS AND CROSS-APPELLANTS, v. PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT AND CROSS-RESPONDENT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided January 30, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John H. Yauch, Jr., argued the cause for the defendant-appellant and cross-respondent (Mr. John O. Bigelow and Mr. James C. Fagan, of counsel; Messrs. Gilhooly, Yauch & Fagan, attorneys).

Mr. M.H. Goldstein, of the Philadelphia Bar, argued the cause for the plaintiffs-respondents and cross-appellants, pro hac vice by leave of the court (Mr. Bernard L. Barkan, of the Philadelphia Bar, of counsel; Mr. Albert B. Melnik, attorney).

The opinion of the court was delivered by HEHER, J.

The essential question here concerns the meaning of a severance-pay provision of a collective bargaining agreement made by the defendant Press Publishing Company, the publisher of a newspaper in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Newspaper Guild of Philadelphia and Camden, a voluntary association affiliated with the American Newspaper Guild, C.I.O., as the exclusive collective...

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