Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the publishers of the city's merged newspapers of a mind to prod the Guild along. For as soon as the package is ratified, the strike will be officially over. The publishers will then be locked in a legal battle with the Printing Pressmen, who insist that their only contracts are with papers that no longer exist. As long as they lack a new contract with the World Journal Tribune, they say, they will not work. That argument is already being contested in the courts, but legal action was suspended while Guild picket lines kept the Pressmen from...
Extravagant Charade. The Pressmen, on the other hand, have what amounts to a built-in reason for a slowdown. Their new president, William Kennedy, took office just last week; and since he must run for re-election in only a year, he has every reason to put on at least as tough a front as his predecessor at the bargaining table. As expected, Kennedy presented the publishers with a new list of extravagant demands; as expected, the publishers insisted that the demands were impossible to live with. That charade was expected to last a week...
...Publishers Association shut down in 1962, but that was because the I.T.U. negotiated its contract with the association as a whole. Alone among the unions, the Guild negotiates individually with each paper. For the moment, at least, it is only fighting with the Times, and last week the Printing Pressmen's union filed suit to enjoin the other publishers from stopping their presses. But a court decision was postponed in the legal wrangle...
...Also-ran: New York City's 144-day newspaper shutdown two winters ago; a pressmen's strike against Detroit papers that ended in November after 134 days...
...goes on to say that the book is "a must for compositors, pressmen, and proofreaders." Now I admit that with proofreaders like the ones you've got, any reading at all might help. But it is obvious to any student of Miss Peruty's that The House on the Sound is by far the least interesting of her books typographically. Although I am merely an amateur as far as printing is concerned. I noted immediately the flawed quality of the 9-point Granjon Bold. In several instances the lower' case 'm' was disrupted by a slash across the base...