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...been knocked completely out of the major dailies in the nation's third most populous city. Of the original 2,000 strikers, 1,600 work at odd jobs only two days a week and therefore qualify for strike benefits, which have cost the unions $10,000 a week (pressmen get a minimum of $25 a week, printers and mailers $103). The other 400 have taken full-time jobs, many at smaller newspapers, where pay is often lower than at the Herald-Examiner. Affected families display signs in their home windows: HEARST HURTS THIS HOUSEHOLD...
Loaded with aviation officials and pressmen, the Soviet Union's huge Aeroflot jetliner, the Ilyushin-62, was scheduled to land at New York's Kennedy Airport after a stopover in Montreal. Total time: 12 hr. 40 min. A few hours later, a Pan American Boeing 707-321B jet was aimed for Moscow, via Copenhagen, for the 4,907-mile journey that was scheduled to last 10 hr. 35 min. Both planes were to return the next day, and both of the once-weekly flights will continue, with passengers paying from $548 for 14-to 21-day economy...
...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 happy with...
Last fall two groups of Harvard workers, issuing similar complaints, looked into the idea of affiliation with unions that have professional business agents. A number of employees at the printing office, mostly press-cameramen, strippers, platemakers, and pressmen, decided to break away from the H.U. Employees Representative Association. In December they became affiliated with the International Lithographers and Photoengravers' Union (AFL-CIO), a union famed for its consistently good (as far as the workers are concerned) contracts...
...Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...