Rally for a fair contract: Bob Kerr anchors a line of 60 picketers that stretched the entire length of the Journal building on Fountain Street on Wednesday, May 28. Providence Newspaper Guild members have been without a contract -- and without raises -- since the end of 1999.

Kerr, a Providence Journal news columnist (reg.req.), will take office June 11 as a member of the Guild's executive board. He was nominated at the April 23 membership meeting and ran unopposed.

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