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...local. The son of a Massachusetts civil servant, Powers was brought up during the period of "relief money, dried fruit, surplus food stamps, and using the public library for entertainment." He got his first taste of unionism when, at 17, he went to work for a Boston printer for $16 a week. At an I.T.U. local meeting one day, says Powers, a man who was campaigning for union office "told the membership to go easy on contract demands because he knew a new plant was going to open in the area. I believed him, and I guess the others...
...WAGES & BENEFITS : Powers demands a wage increase of $19 a week over the present $145 (New York printers average about $7,500 yearly), extra vacation time (estimated cost to publishers: $3.15 a week), five-day annual sick leave ($2.50 a week), reduction of the work week from 36¼ hours to 35 ($8.16 a week), new night differential pay ($1.90 a week). Taken together, the Powers wage-benefit requirements would cost the publishers an extra $37 a week per printer for two years. In return, the publishers have offered Powers a $10 package...
...York Post will resume publication Monday, raising hopes for an early settlement of New York's 83-day newspayer strike. The afternoon tabloid closed voluntarily last Dec. 9 after a printer's strike closed down four other New York papers...
...shining picture called The Little Gray Home in the West. And nowhere is it shinier than in real estate brochures aimed at retirement-age oldsters. Sadly, in all too many cases, the grass and sparkling water, recreational facilities and well-paved roads of Retirement Land are only so much printer's ink. Items...
...years ago, Powers and Bradford locked horns for the first time in what was a minor but prophetic application of force. The Times had fired a printer for cussing his foreman, and an arbitration board upheld his dismissal. But the paper, working toward a new contract with the I.T.U.. and aware that the printer's dismissal was an inflammatory side issue, reinstated him anyway...