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Wall Street Journal reporters will withhold their bylines from articles in today’s and Thursday’s editions of the newspaper as they protest terms of a proposed labor contract with publisher Dow Jones & Co. About three-quarters of the paper’s approximately 150 U.S. reporters plan to withhold their bylines, said Tom Lauricella, a Wall Street Journal writer who represents members of the union at the company. It would be the first byline strike ever at Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, he said. Dow Jones has offered a four-year contract with “small wage increases” and benefit cuts in which each employee would lose thousands of dollars, after factoring in the rising cost of living, a member of the union said. New York-based Dow Jones said it was continuing to negotiate with the union and was meeting Friday with an outside mediator to reach a settlement.