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Transit strikes, blizzards and brownouts can make urban life an ordeal, but nothing hurts a city in quite so many subtle ways as a newspaper strike. St. Louis, bereft of the morning Globe-Democrat and the afternoon Post-Dispatch for five weeks, was painfully counting new losses with each passing...
Like Locusts. The biggest loss for St. Louis, though, is the news itself. Whether a reader is interested in sports or stocks, Watergate or the city council, he has been having trouble keeping abreast. The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch have a combined circulation of over 600,000. The supply of alternative information sources falls far short of demand...
...even Stan the Man can't give St. Louis the one thing it really wants -an end to the strike. Nor, it seems, can negotiators for the striking Teamsters union and the papers. The main issue is automation-a new multimillion-dollar Post-Dispatch printing plant has made obsolete the jobs of some of the 32 Teamsters who load papers on and off delivery trucks. Last week the Globe-Democrat went to court to seek a settlement, and Mayor John Poelker said he would step in to mediate the strike. Meanwhile the readers wait...
...Louis found itself without a daily newspaper last week. Teamster Local 610 struck the Post-Dispatch after negotiations between the paper and its truck drivers and delivery men deadlocked. Wages were at issue, but the chief dispute involved the job security of the 32 men who heave bundles of papers on and off the trucks. A new automated delivery system can do much of their work. The Post-Dispatch offered to train the men for other jobs; Teamster negotiators said no, that the men must remain in their present slots. When the Newspaper Guild supported the Teamster action, the rival...
...defense was often hedged. Said the conservative Chicago Tribune last week: "Nixon's letter declining to provide the tapes was not all that unreasonable. Perhaps reason can still be appealed to to produce a compromise that may save the country from this tragically unnecessary battle." The Richmond Times-Dispatch was more emphatic in its support: "His compliance would have shattered the separation of powers principle and left the presidency vulnerable to all kinds of incursions in the future...