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Classic Confrontation. This year's walkout was staged by two unions: the pressmen, who have taken a bellwether role in six of the nine strikes, and the paper and plate handlers' union, whose members do such unskilled work as hauling paper rolls and printing plates from one shop location to another. The current dispute shed no clear light on the causes of Detroit's perennial newspaper strife; in the classic labor-management confrontation, the two unions simply demanded more money than the publishers wanted to pay. But behind the public issues lay grievances so deep...
...have long been uneasily aware of the anti-union sentiments of Free Press Publisher John S. Knight, who also has papers in Akron, Charlotte, N.C., and Miami. It is Knight's avowed policy to de-unionize his plants, a process he began with the Miami Herald. When the pressmen's contract expired in 1961, Knight refused to renew it; the Herald's presses have since rolled without benefit of union help...
...money and had to borrow $300,000 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these papers had not been struck but had closed down when the I.T.U. struck the other four dailies, the union claimed that the pressmen...
...hopeful moments, it seemed that the judges might have catalyzed a break in the strike. "Let me suggest a way out," said John Harold, attorney for the Pressmen's Unit; he confided to the panel that his union's membership was "close to a settlement." The judges promptly recessed to let the pressmen and the publishers come together in negotiations that went on all night. But this produced only an objection by Bert Powers. "A severe handicap," said he. "It puts us in a disadvantageous position to have a second union negotiating while we're negotiating...
...will end. Strong pressures mount each week to end it. The unions' war chests are depleting: within four weeks, the printers will be forced to tap the national membership at large for contributions right off the top of their pay. Other idled unions are growing restive, especially the pressmen and the drivers; both had all but agreed to accept the $9.20 package when Powers abruptly...