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...Powers and publishers' representative Amory Bradford continue to make a settlement of the automation question a condition for ending the strike, it will go on forever. If a wage agreement can be arrived at, the printers should go back to work, leaving the automation question to be arbitrated by the Federal government. If the President can spare a few minutes from his tax charts, he may find that it is not tax reform, but a labor policy, that this country needs most desperately...
Separate Paths. Powers, who called the strike, does not trust Bradford. He is not so much printer as union politician, a shrewd and self-made man whose formal education ended with the second year of high school. By 1961, Powers' ambition had carried him all the way to the presidency of Local 6, from which eminence he issued the command that struck nine dailies dumb...
...Amory Bradford traveled a vastly different course to his collision with the union leader. A product of the Ivy League -Phillips Academy, Yale '34-Bradford practiced corporation law in Manhattan for nine years before joining the Times as assistant to the publisher in 1947. There he rose steadily through the executive ranks. His position on the Times, plus his law background, made him the Publishers Association's logical choice to confront the printers' truculence...
...years ago, Powers and Bradford locked horns for the first time in what was a minor but prophetic application of force. The Times had fired a printer for cussing his foreman, and an arbitration board upheld his dismissal. But the paper, working toward a new contract with the I.T.U.. and aware that the printer's dismissal was an inflammatory side issue, reinstated him anyway...
Last Resort. Beyond the irreconcilable differences lie the negotiable issues of money and prerogative. They are not being negotiated. Powers admits that his demands, which amount to $38 more a week per man, are unrealistic and unattainable, but he shows no spirit of compromise. Instead, in 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...