Word: bertrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local President Bertram A. Powers, whose men instigated the strike, stubbornly boycotted the board, but just about everybody else showed up to speak his piece...
...avowed purpose: to get the city's newspapers back into print. In this purpose, both have signally failed. They have nothing to say to each other beyond a few cold, perfunctorily polite words. In their stubborn refusal to start meaningful negotiations, it is almost as if Bertram Anthony Powers, president of New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, and Amory Howe Bradford, general manager of the New York Times, were anxious mainly to keep the newspapers off the streets...
...antagonists in New York's newspaper strike resumed their places across the bargaining table last week, but about all that was traded was hostile words. "They are not going to put out a paper until they start to negotiate, and they haven't started," said Bertram A. Powers, president of New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, which by striking four papers Dec. 7 shut down all nine New York City dailies. Said Amory Bradford, chief spokesman for the Publishers Association of New York: "Their list of demands is totally unacceptable. We are within a very...
...side of the argument stood Bertram A. Powers, 40, president of New York Local No. 6 of the International Typographical Union. In 65 years the Big Six-as Powers' local boastfully calls itself-has never before led a New York strike. But last Dec. 8. without even bothering to notify the other six printing craft unions. Powers pulled his men off the morning Times and the News, the evening World-Telegram and the Journal-American-the four Manhattan dailies that he deemed sufficiently prosperous to endure a lengthy siege...
...typographers demanded twice the amount the publishers settled for with the Guild, plus shorter hours and new fringe benefits, including increased vacations. When the walkout came, some publishers put the blame squarely on Bertram A. Powers, 40, tough president of the New York Typographical Union No. 6. They charged that Powers is trying to make a name for himself with a successful strike against the big-city dailies. According to this reasoning, Powers deliberately set his union's demands at an unacceptable high. Said one disgusted publisher: "Powers wants a deed to the premises...