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Bickering and grandstanding were obviously no help, but that was all the union bosses seemed ready to do as Detroit's newspaper strike approached its 20th week. Pressmen's Union President Freeman Frazee tried to split the two struck papers by marching his men back to the Free Press but not to the News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss...
Curiously enough, it was another intervening labor leader, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, who broke the deadlock. Apparently looking for a way out of the trap his own stubbornness had sprung, the pressmen's Frazee paid a clandestine visit to Reuther at the U.A.W.'s Solidarity House and humbly asked for help. "I'll make a compromise proposal," Reuther said, "but I won't argue." Within a day, both the papers and Frazee's pressmen accepted the terms...
Reuther's proposals ironed out the remaining issue between the two sides: whether to operate new high-speed presses with 15-man or 16-man crews. For one year, proposed the U.A.W. chief, the presses will run with 16-man crews. Then, unless the pressmen agree to submit the issue to binding arbitration, the 16th man will be dropped...
...strikers may be susceptible to public pressure, the Rt. Rev. Richard S. Emrich, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, applied some of that pressure last week to Detroit's newspaper strike, now in its fourth month. By taking a "public be damned" attitude, said Bishop Emrich, Detroit's printing-pressmen and the paper and plate handlers who walked off both the Free Press and News last July, have threatened the legitimate cause of unionism. Their insistence on terms beyond those accepted by twelve other unions, said the bishop, was "a scandalous misuse of power...
...lasted longer than the one that muffled the News and the Free Press 15 weeks ago. And never before has the prospect of settlement looked bleaker. Except for minor concessions, the two sides remained just as far apart as they were when Freeman Frazee, president of the Detroit printing pressmen's union, led his men off both papers-an exodus joined by one other union, the paper and plate handlers. "Smoky" Frazee has clung stubbornly to his demands, which include premium pay for pressmen working Saturdays. The papers have been equally adamant in refusing them...