Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high degree of efficiency. Management, of course, is still on the job, as are eleven top editors and reporters who are under personal contract to the paper. There are no longer any time-wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real happy with...
Last fall two groups of Harvard workers, issuing similar complaints, looked into the idea of affiliation with unions that have professional business agents. A number of employees at the printing office, mostly press-cameramen, strippers, platemakers, and pressmen, decided to break away from the H.U. Employees Representative Association. In December they became affiliated with the International Lithographers and Photoengravers' Union (AFL-CIO), a union famed for its consistently good (as far as the workers are concerned) contracts...
...Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...
Editor Frank Conniff propped his feet on his desk and took command of a city room that had been painfully silent for months. Word was out that the New York newspaper strike was over at last. The pressmen, last of the squabbling unions to make peace, had finally settled; the stereotypers were scheduled to vote approval of their contract at week's end. The long-deferred New York World Journal Tribune was actually getting ready to put out a newspaper, and Conniff's phone rang constantly. Columnist after columnist wanted to ask his new boss for the honor...
...strike that had kept Manhattan's World Journal Tribune from publishing for more than three months was only 1½ hours away from settlement. It looked like a long 90 minutes, courtesy of the Printing Pressmen, the only one of ten unions that had not come to terms with the newly merged corporation. Last week the World Journal Tribune was still insisting that the pressmen work an eight-hour shift on Saturday night, just as they do at the New York Times and the Daily News. The pressmen were still holding out for a 6½-hour shift. Both...