Word: papering
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Promise of Seniority. To replace the 2,000 employees on strike, Hearst has hired 1,200 non-union personnel. Some are professional strikebreakers who travel from one struck paper to the next. But most of them come from suburban papers around Los Angeles, and they aim to stay on. They have been promised that they can keep their jobs when the strike is ended and that they will even have seniority over the strikers. "I don't like being called a strikebreaker," says a 26-year-old reporter who is making $54 more a week at the Examiner than...
Within the plant, Hearst has maintained a high degree of efficiency. Management, of course, is still on the job, as are eleven top editors and reporters who are under personal contract to the paper. There are no longer any time-wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real...
...unions are not. They are, in fact, a study in furious frustration. They promoted a boycott of the paper's advertisers, but with little success. A Hearst strike in San Francisco, supported by Los Angeles pickets, was settled last week. The unions claim that they cannot get management to negotiate. Their picketing has proved ineffectual, even when it was reinforced by occasional mob scenes in front of the Examiner. Non-union people were beaten up, windows smashed. But the police have cleared the area of all but the legal number of pickets. The best the unions...
...Reward. The worst violence to date occurred last month when two non-union printers were shot in a Los Angeles motel; one died recently. Police have not traced the crime to the unions, but the Examiner had no doubts. In a front-page editorial, the paper put the blame squarely on the strikers. "This cold-blooded murder," said the paper, "heads a long list of crimes and violence since eleven trade unions went on strike." The paper then proceeded to list 150 incidents. "The Herald-Examiner," concluded the editorial, "will not be moved by intimidation." The paper offered...
That was no obstacle to Avatar. It promptly rounded up scores of sympathetic youngsters to hawk the paper on street corners. One by one, police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest...