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Last October the government summarily canceled the licenses of all 65 Indonesian papers, reissued only 55; the missing ten were papers whose performance as advocates of the administration did not meet Sukarno's exacting standards. South Viet Nam arrests not only offending journalists but pressmen, compositors and Linotypists as well-together with their families...
Half Pre-Strike Size. But the unions were even harder shaken. When the pressmen, among the last of eleven unions to go out, joined the stereotypers, the papers fired them; the National Labor Relations Board upheld the dismissal. And violence broke out as the papers appeared to be proving their point: that modern, automatic printshop machinery can run on unskilled labor with far fewer hands than union featherbedding clauses demand. In January, ten newsprint delivery trucks were dynamited; last week five persons were indicted in connection with the bombings, including a member of the stereotypers' negotiating board...
...that the dozer had been on the job, or at least on the premises, for 26 straight hours-all but seven at overtime wages. Since there was no apparent reason for the money-wasting marathon, the business manager promptly complained to the shop representative of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. The cold reply: "Well, he needed the money...
Against such practices, most U.S. publishers can only shrug helplessly. The pressmen's union is one of the five members of the International Allied Printing Trades Association, which also includes the International Typographical Union, the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, the International Photo-Engravers' Union and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed...
...International Cooperation Administration, already irked by the bestselling success of the semi-fictional The Ugly American (which describes bumbling failures of U.S. diplomats and foreign aidsters in Asian countries), has something new to worry about. Universal-International is planning to film the book in Thailand, and harried ICA pressmen can already visualize reaction of worldwide movie audiences to an almond-eyed Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Novak being pushed around by a bumptious young U.S. foreign aid boy abroad, a banality-mouthing U.S. Senator in Asia, or a potty U.S. ambassador. The moviemakers are asking for State Department cooperation...