Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money and had to borrow $300,000 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these papers had not been struck but had closed down when the I.T.U. struck the other four dailies, the union claimed that the pressmen...
...hopeful moments, it seemed that the judges might have catalyzed a break in the strike. "Let me suggest a way out," said John Harold, attorney for the Pressmen's Unit; he confided to the panel that his union's membership was "close to a settlement." The judges promptly recessed to let the pressmen and the publishers come together in negotiations that went on all night. But this produced only an objection by Bert Powers. "A severe handicap," said he. "It puts us in a disadvantageous position to have a second union negotiating while we're negotiating...
...will end. Strong pressures mount each week to end it. The unions' war chests are depleting: within four weeks, the printers will be forced to tap the national membership at large for contributions right off the top of their pay. Other idled unions are growing restive, especially the pressmen and the drivers; both had all but agreed to accept the $9.20 package when Powers abruptly...
...CRIMSON rolls into New Haven after a banner year, including victories over the Harvard Lampoon, Radcliffe's Briggs Hall, and the Crimson Printing Company "Pressmen...
Frustrated at home, the pressmen sent picket contingents to Akron, where Knight publishes the Beacon Journal, and to Charlotte, N.C., where he has two papers, the News and the Observer. The union emissaries failed in both cities: local pressmen ignored the picket lines. But when another six-man Miami team reached Detroit, the Free Press's sympathetic pressmen walked out, and the paper closed down...