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...supporter of negotiations that will lead to a fair deal for both labor and management. But I would shut down a newspaper before I would let Bertram Powers [July 2] tell me what I could not do to make my operation more economical. If I were Dolly Schiff, I would not feel one speck of remorse if I were to close the Post and put 280 printers out of work. If automation means there are too many printers, then some of them should get out of the business...
...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned...
Printer Powers looked as if he had been hit in the face with pi. He regarded Mrs. Schiff as a warm supporter of trade unionism, and said that he hoped she wouldn't resign. After all, she is "very important to the New York scene...
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...