Word: linotypists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year. And labor costs have maintained a consistent spiral: in New York a Linotypist's wage has climbed from $77.70 in 1945 to $128 a week-and the International Typographical Union is currently demanding $30 a week more...
...time since he bought the paper in 1910. But in neighboring Madison, Publisher Don Anderson of the daily Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 75,653), read about the mishap to the Observer's one-man (and wife) staff. He rounded up three of his reporters, an advertising man and linotypist, drove ten miles to Oregon and put together an eight-page issue. Will Sumner Jr., editor of another weekly, the Evansville Review, was recruited to feed the 75-year-old flatbed press. The Observer came out last week-only one day late. Said Kramer: "This beats anything...