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...newspaper-hungry New Yorker, I deplore the strike as much as anyone. And I would hesitate to accuse TIME of any bias in its coverage of the "disgraceful strike," where the "intransigence" of Bertram Powers has "caused the breakdown of negotiations...
...seventh-floor office on Manhattan's West Side, a glacially handsome man spoke coldly about his situation. Said Bertram Anthony Powers, 40, president of Local No. 6 ("Big Six") of the International Typographical Union: "All this pressure and complaint was expected. Management is always right and we're always wrong. That's the way strikes are. I'm not bothered...
This in turn would force four papers closed by the strike to try to reach an early settlement with Local Six of the International Typographers Union. Bertram Powers, president of Local Six, stood beside the Post's publisher, Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, as she announced her decision yesterday...
...words were spoken by Bertram A. Powers, president of the International Typographical Union Local 6, which by striking four Manhattan dailies last December incited into silence all seven of the city's papers and two on Long Island. But the sentiment might just as well have come from the mouth of Amory H. Bradford, the publishers' chief representative...
...wherewithal to last out a long strike. The Guild does not. On Monday, the Guild was forced to take the drastic step of mortgaging its headquarters to meet its obligations to its members. At the meeting where the decision was made, Guildsmen loudly booed the name of Bertram Powers...