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...year, one-third of it in overtime according to the Post. In previous contracts, management had given the pressmen control over setting people's work schedules and determining the size of work crews. The union had used this control, charged the Post, to enable the average pressman to supplement his $14,000 basic wage with $8,000 in overtime per year. Complains Graham: "They frequently scheduled themselves to get as much overtime as possible-sometimes at the expense of getting the paper out on time...
...shocked and dismayed at the blatantly commercial tone of your holiday supplement. The focus on expensive gifts, expensive ski vacations, and expensive resorts was not only vulgar but also out of keeping with your usually astute social perspectives. I was quite disappointed to see the bylines of some of your better writers attached to such "sell-out" articles...
Certainly these are hard times for everyone and perhaps your newspaper desperately needs the extra revenue an advertising supplement can bring in. But I expected a newspaper like yours--one with intelligent writers and an unusually well-informed radical viewpoint--to come up with something more provocative. Not only don't you attack the sickening commercial aspects of Christmas, you exploit them...
...husband (Harvard '70) and I have been arguing for years over whose university boasted a better newspaper. This morning, when we happened across a copy of your holiday supplement, he acceded the question. Sally Tobias
...Neill's editorial-improvement campaign at the News has some distance to go. The paper still has only two full-time foreign correspondents (v. 30 for the Times). Its business section is a pitifully thin single daily page, and the paper could use some thoughtful columnists to supplement its brief editorials...