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Separate Paths. Powers, who called the strike, does not trust Bradford. He is not so much printer as union politician, a shrewd and self-made man whose formal education ended with the second year of high school. By 1961, Powers' ambition had carried him all the way to the presidency of Local 6, from which eminence he issued the command that struck nine dailies dumb...
...gulf between these men keeps the papers mute. Pride and prejudice are deeply involved on both sides. The I.T.U. is a proud union, with roots buried deep in the 18th century, when some New York City compositors agitated for a pay increase to $1 a day. The I.T.U. printer considers his job a personal possession, like a car or a house-not a work privilege to be conferred and withdrawn by management...
...pride and prejudice of the newspaper publishers prevents them from granting the printers, or other mechanical help, full membership in journalism's family. A printer does not earn pay boosts on merit; his leaders negotiate them. None of the I.T.U.'s 115,000 members get a penny more than the wages set at contract time. The situation tends to dehumanize relations and to develop a common respect for power...
...four of all newspaper subscribers in Denmark. The execution of Marie Antoinette, the death of Washington are events frozen on fragile, age-yellowed pages in Tidende's library, where bound copies of the paper date back to 1749. That was the year that Ernst Henrich Berling, a Copenhagen printer, secured a license to send news through the royal mail. The license has long since expired, along with Frederik V, the monarch who granted it. Frederik IX now sits on the throne. Ernst Berling, too, died long ago. But six successive generations of Berlings have preserved Tidende's title...
...YORK, Dec. 14--As the printer's union strike against New York's nine major newspapers entered its seventh day, the CRIMSON yesterday distributed nearly ten thousand copies of a special New York City edition in a spontaneous move to keep the public informed of the news...