Unexpectedly, the Baltimore public, mostly inactive to that point, rose up in protest. The paper's switchboard was deluged with subscription cancellations; bundles of newspapers, dropped off as usual by delivery trucks, were thrown down storm drains. At 501 N. Calvert St., the company decided to settle. 

This was accomplished by both sides agreeing the main issues (wages and union security) would be arbitrated by a three-man panel: Dr. Otto Kraushaar, president of Goucher College (representing the governor); attorney Raymond Cluster (representing the mayor); and Francis X. Gallagher, diocesan counsel (representing Cardinal Lawrence Shehan). 

The strike ended June 4. Salaries were increased, a dues checkoff policy was begun, and seven out of 10 new employees were required to join the Guild. (The arbitrators put the seven of 10 new-joins figure at the same percentage as the pre-strike employee vote supporting the Guild. In later bargaining, this became eight out of 10.) 

Fringe benefits were increased and pensions were standardized, replacing the old system, in which they were doled out to favorite employees at the whim of the company's board of directors. The company began paying for medical insurance.

  In 1970, the Guild observed Web Pressmen's Union Local 31 strike, which closed the Sunpapers for 74 days. A threeday strike in June 1978 following the expiration of the Guild contract did not disrupt publication. 

The unit's most recent strike against the Sunpapers occurred in June 1987, a month after the newspaper celebrated its 150th anniversary. A main issue was whether Guild-covered employees would have to pay increasing health insurance premiums while The Sun's contribution level remained frozen. At the end of the six-day strike, the Guild agreed to share the cost, at a percentage level of 11.5. That figure held until 1997. 

In May 1989, when a new vendor took over the cafeteria with plans to fire the seven employees in the Canteen Unit of Local 35, the Guild led a companywide boycott (even managers and supervisors stayed away) of the cafeteria until all the workers were satisfactoiily placed. During the boycott, the fired workers gave out sodas under the viaduct, and came to the cafeteria for brown-bag lunches. 
 

  In 1990, The Sun opened its printing facility at Sun Park. Guild employees in the building department - electricians, building mechanics, machinists, janitors, maintenance assistants - went to work there. Part of the contract gives these employees the right to choose the shift and site they want to work in. 

At the end of 1991, 7he Sun offered a buyout to anyone in Guild jurisdiction and all its managers with six months' seniority. More than 300 employees left The Sun through February 1992 - 250 of them from Guild-covered jobs. 

In mid-1992, in keeping with the agreement called Sunburst, suburban-edition employees, previously on a two-tier wage system, gained downtown wage scales and benefits, giving many of them substantial raises. 

On September 15, 1995, The Evening Sun closed. Its newsroom employees were transferred to the morning paper. Seniority language protecting their jobs had been in the contract since 1990. In December 1997, in accordance with a ruling by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, the Promotions and Events and Sunspot (online) departments were added to the Guild unit.