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For the first time in almost fifteen years, the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild is asking Washington Post employees to voluntarily exercise their right to withhold their names from their articles, photographs and drawings. The byline “strike” is scheduled for June 5 and 6 and is meant to draw public attention to stalled contract negotiations---a goal which recently retired twenty-two year Post employee Frank Swoboda said will certainly be achieved by the tactic. The 1,400 members of the Guild who work at the Post have been without a contract since May 18 and have already held three informational pickets to protest management’s demands for contract concessions that could severely weaken the union’s finances and membership base