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...stereotypers, the papers fired them; the National Labor Relations Board upheld the dismissal. And violence broke out as the papers appeared to be proving their point: that modern, automatic printshop machinery can run on unskilled labor with far fewer hands than union featherbedding clauses demand. In January, ten newsprint delivery trucks were dynamited; last week five persons were indicted in connection with the bombings, including a member of the stereotypers' negotiating board...
Even When It Hurts. Not content with these restrictions, Menderes has also seized control of newsprint supply, uses it to punish outspoken papers by reducing their quota. Similarly, he established a government agency to handle the placing of all newspaper ads. While private advertisers have successfully resisted strict government control over their ads, Menderes' men see to it that government advertising goes to his favorite publications. After the Ankara weekly Akis (Reflection) criticized a public official, its government ad quota dropped to zero...
When it started its highly touted trade offensive short months ago, Peking lured Western businessmen with offers of $7 violins. $23 sewing machines, $14 bicycles, promised to deliver nails, newsprint and electric motors at prices far below Japanese goods. But haste to gather foreign exchange to cover a huge trade deficit with Russia-and to do what it could to damage non-Communist competitors-led Red China to overstep itself. Its rickety economy suffered from primitive production methods, an overburdened transportation system, and an anarchic planning system that put untrained workers on industrial machines and knowledgeable technicians in mines...
...toils of one I form of oppression or another. Of course, in the Communist world, where press control is traditionally total, there is no perceptible struggle. But in freer countries there are subtler means of entrapment. There are the subsidized newspapers (and editors), the "guided" press, censorship, newsprint allocations, and more. All operate in the same direction-away from the people's right to know...
...leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...