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...Bert Powers, an appraisal of labor-management relations in the past 15 years will reveal to him that reason and justice, rather than strikes, have been useful in the settlement of an increasingly greater number of disputes...
...think this strike has gone on long enough," said New York Post Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff in what was surely the understatement of the week. "The city should have at least one newspaper." With that, Dolly Schiff broke the united front of New York publishers against Bert Powers' local of the International Typographical Union. She resigned from the New York Publishers Association and announced that the Post would reappear on the newsstands this week...
There are a lot of miles between New York, Philadelphia and Miami Beach. And there is a lot of difference between Bert Powers, George Meany and Jimmy Hoffa. Yet those three scenes tell much about the U.S. labor movement-and its present state of disrepair...
...culpable as the publishers may be. the key to the newspaper strike remains Bert Powers and his Big Six local. The son of a Massachusetts civil servant, Powers was brought up during the period of "relief money, dried fruit, surplus food stamps, and using the public library for entertainment." He got his first taste of unionism when, at 17, he went to work for a Boston printer for $16 a week. At an I.T.U. local meeting one day, says Powers, a man who was campaigning for union office "told the membership to go easy on contract demands because he knew...
...already shaky economics, and has hastened the death of at least two shows that represented an investment of $190,000. Though Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright opened to generally favorable reviews, few New Yorkers could read them-and the show closed after 33 performances. To avoid the same fate. Bert Lahr's comedy. The Beauty Part, has been spending three times the normal advertising budget to conduct contests for free tickets and hire a skywriting plane. Without newspapers, mail orders for Broadway tickets are way down; Beauty Part orders trickle in at only about 70 a day when there should...