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...resumption of publication by the dailies which have not been struck, should have been taken long ago. The publishers' slogan, "a strike against one is a strike against all," is self-destructive; the "all for one" policy, in any event, is spottily enforced. Earlier this fall, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Daily News for eight days, none of the other papers closed down. Also, and more importantly, the publishers ignored their responsibility to the public when they chose to complete the press blackout. With three newspapers the city could at least keep an eye on its own government...
...international union; there is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it is no excuse for prolonging a strike. Local Six, for its part, wants to regain its position as top banana among newspaper unions. The I.T.U.'s former position of leadership is now occupied by the Newspaper Guild, and one way to regain that leadership, Powers reasons, is to win a sensational and unpopular strike...
...fact that the strike is, in some measure, a power play by Powers and Local Six has understandably aggravated the other unions, especially the Newspaper Guild. The I.T.U., like the publishers, has the 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...
...band of serious fact-finders have contented themselves with condemning Powers. To be sure, his refusal to negotiate seriously the issues of wages and benefits is maddening and inexcusable; and the typographers' wage demands are excessive. They are asking an $18-a-week wage increase, $10 more than the Guild won in its strike last month. (On the other band, his demand for a contract expiration date coinciding with the Guild's is perfectly legitimate, since no union should be hamstrung by the pressures of another union's contract...
Severe Handicap. But if the strike was a bore, it was also a painfully expensive one. The American Newspaper Guild ran out of money and had to borrow $300,000 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these...