Word: swayduck
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Amalgamated Lithographers of America convention in Chicago adopted a proposal to put $1 million in A.L.A. money into a fund to promote technological advances in lithography, provided that employers put up a matching sum. The fund will bring "better working conditions and real wage increases," argued Edward Swayduck, the man behind the plan...
President of the A.L.A.'s biggest local (New York City), Swayduck, 46, has been urging technological progress in lithography ever since boyhood, when he chided his father, owner of a small lithography shop in Indianapolis, for sticking with old-fashioned techniques. After he became a lithographer himself, the younger Swayduck saw technological changes-rotary instead of flatbed presses, metal instead of stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist...