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Last week some 730,000 regular Times readers were not with it. But not by choice. For the first time in its 32-year history the New York Newspaper Guild had struck the Times, and the paper was not publishing...
Neither was most of the competition. When the nine other newspaper unions refused to cross the Guild picket line, the papers belonging to the New York Publishers Association-the Her-a'd Tribune, Daily News, Journal-American, World-Telegram, Long Island Daily Press and Star-Journal-shut down too. Of the city's major dailies, only the New York Post, which does not belong to the association, was still on newsstands-a situation that served as an ominous reminder of 1962's 114-day newspaper strike, which crippled the city's papers and helped send...
Demand for a Veto. As soon as the Guild struck, Mayor Wagner summoned home his troubleshooting labor mediator, Ted Kheel, from a Copenhagen conference on automation, which is, ironically, the key issue in the New York dispute. Kheel closeted himself with the negotiators, and the group stayed in session from 7 in the evening until 8 the next morning. Two hours later, they reconvened and kept at it until 1 the following morning, when a haggard, pallid Kheel announced: "With the benefit of sleep and reflection, we will be able to move forward." His optimism was well meant, but Kheel...
...heart of the Times-Guild dispute is the thorny question of how to protect jobs when new machines can do them more efficiently and more cheaply. When the publishers bargained with the New York Typographical Union last spring, they agreed to give the printers a veto over the installation of any new automation equipment, a decision they have already come to regret. For now the Guild is demanding equal treatment...
Fearful that jobs connected with new machinery will be given to the more powerful printers, the Guild wants much the same veto power as the I.T.U. "We believe that if the company is under the pressure of one union," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, "the other union is going to be left out in the cold. We don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...