Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time, New York's four-week-old newspaper strike showed signs of a settlement. The printers' boss, Bert Powers, settled with the publishers, and World Journal Tribune President Matt Meyer spoke with unaccustomed optimism. "The typographical union," he said, "did not burden us with restrictive practices and extra manpower that would cripple us before we started. The settlement is expensive in terms of money but not in terms of numbers of men. So far as our composing room is concerned, we can operate reasonably competitively with other papers in New York...
NEWSPAPERS In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, the leaders of three striking New York newspaper unions took up positions in three separate rooms. Representatives of the strikebound World Journal Tribune publishing company were sequestered in still another. Mediators dashed from one group to the next. Chief Mediator David Cole did his desperate best to keep track of what was going on, but by week's end all the activity had produced little in the way of bargaining. "This is a strange kind of thing," complained Cole. "It doesn't seem to respond to ordinary techniques...
There are big questions about the Sunday World Journal and Tribune too, but the afternoon World Journal is another matter. Even with all the handicaps brought on by the strike, even though the summer, which brings meager advertising to the most successful papers, is fast approaching, the World Journal's future seems bright. With its only competition the tabloid Post, there is obvious room for a second paper. And both Scripps-Howard and Hearst, who have merged their interests in the World Journal, have good reason for hanging on to a base in New York, which is the nation...
That seemed to suggest an overt opposition to Mao-think, but if so, the Maoists suggested that they were ready for anything. The Central Committee journal Hung Chi last week warned that "workers, peasants and soldiers who are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thinking have a most acute sense for distinguishing flowers from poisonous weeds...
While extending their sympathies to the struck papers in editorials, the other New York dailies-the Times, Daily News and Post-continued to publish. With no competition in the afternoon, the Post increased its press run from 400,000 to 600,000. Meanwhile, rumors spread that the embryo World Journal Tribune might collapse in the face of adamant union demands. "We don't intend to go out of business," insisted Matt Meyer, "and we're not going to." The papers' employees were not so sure. With 2,000 on the dismissal list, even those who were...