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When voters in a Portland, Ore. suburb recently torpedoed a tax increase that would have provided more money for their schools, Superintendent of Schools Floyd Light knew just what the trouble was: Wilma Morrison, education editor of the union-struck Portland Oregonian, had not been around to push for the measure. Said Light darkly: "Her being out definitely hurt us. The story was not brought before the public...
From house to house in Portland moved union teams, exhorting tenants to cancel their subscriptions to Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. As a substitute, subscribers had the offer of a new weekly tabloid published by the Portland Interunion Newspaper Committee in a desperate attempt to win a strike that was already three months old. During those three months, the dispute had become a finish fight, eyed closely by printing-craft union men and newspaper publishers all over the U.S. At stake: the capability of newspapers, using modern equipment, to get along...
Weekly Improvement. The strike began last November when 54 Oregonian and Journal stereotypers walked off their jobs in protest against the Oregonian's plans to buy a highly automated German plate-casting machine. When other printing craftsmen followed, Oregonian and Journal brass joined forces, moved into the Oregonian's mechanical department, began putting out a pied, but still readable, combined edition of the Oregonian-Oregon Journal (TIME, Nov. 23). A call for mechanical help went out to nonunion papers throughout the U.S., and the jointly published paper soon was limping along with 72 experienced hands recruited from...
Management's showdown effort was costly. Before the strike, the morning Oregonian had a daily circulation of 242,035, the p.m. Journal, 188,677. Oregonian Publisher Michael J. Frey estimates that total circulation has dropped 70,000; the Portland Newspaper Guild's President Robert L. Shults has set the loss...
...from advertisers, and from the first day's 24-page, 43,000-copy edition, production had moved up by week's end to a Sunday edition of 48 pages, with a press run of 520,000 copies. At that rate it appeared that the Journal and the Oregonian may have turned their composing-room comedy of errors into a long-run test of strength...