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...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...
...Bradford's company, he insists that the new contract, whenever it is signed, expire on Oct. 31, 1964. The date is meaningful. It would move the printers' contract back to coincide with that of the Newspaper Guild, whose role as standard-bearer for the printing craft unions Bert Powers intends to recoup for the I.T.U. It also falls just before the national elections, an event of such news significance that any strike called on Oct. 31 would turn the city's newspaper publishers into frantic...
...these reasons, the publishers are as obdurate as Bert Powers. Said one of them: "We will stand on our offer longer than Powers can stand on his. He has to yield. He won't get another 15? out of us because we don't have it to give." Such strong talk draws from Powers only a cynical smile. "The only thing that counts," said he last week, "is muscle. If disputes were settled by reason or justice. there wouldn't be unions...
...printers' intransigence. Nor have the newspapers exhibited much will to meet their keystone responsibility to stay in print somehow-even by makeshift-which is just what Portland's two daily newspapers did three years ago. during a mass walkout that is still in effect. For his part, Bert Powers could have kept his men working at their jobs while he bargained with men whom only his own blindness prevents him from recognizing as reasonable...
...Right after the war and up until the mid '50s, there was always a tremendous demand for hotel space," explains Bert Sommers, general manager of Chicago's forty-year-old Sherman House. "Hotel managers got away with murder. They didn't put their dough back into their hotels; service and facilities went to hell." As the traveling public developed a preference for the convenience and modernity of motels, hotel occupancy rates shriveled from a nationwide average of 93% in 1946 to 62% last year. As operating costs rise for hotels, more and more are filling out their...