Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fold It? The target was the liberal afternoon New York Post (circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down...
...Schiff and Powers argued it out in the composing room. At length, she turned to the crowd of printers. "Are you with him or with me?" she cried. The printers stood mute. With tears in her eyes, Publisher Schiff turned away, and minutes later ordered the Post shut down until further notice. That night, she declared that unless the union backed down, she would either sell the paper "or fold it forever if nobody wants...
Gulp. Intermittently through the next day, Mrs. Schiff and Powers, whom she thinks of as a friend, hashed out their dispute with the help of Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel. Powers persisted in his demand for an equal sharing of all wage savings realized by the automation process, while Dolly stubbornly argued that she would not share savings in any year in which the paper failed to make a profit. At length, as the principals wrangled in her East Side Manhattan apartment, Publisher Schiff the astute business woman became Dolly Schiff the wronged woman. "It's obvious," said...
...Schiff explained that this was her 26th anniversary at the Post. "Maybe," she mused, "I've been around too long and it's time...
...least Karp is doing something about the shame. The Brooklyn Museum is readying an acre for Karp's relics, to be called the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden. Due to be opened next year, the sanctuary will have antique lampposts lighting the paths, and wistful wanderers will be able to sit on filigree benches and ponder the pilasters of the past. It is just possible that before the project is completed it may include a machine-tooled, I-beam mullion from the first of the glass-and-steel box buildings acetylene-torched out of existence...