Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...printing-craft devices, the most wasteful is that of setting "bogus," or "dead horse," which the International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines...
...months the I.T.U. has been engaged in a bitter dispute with ten New York papers* on the subject of bogus. Negotiating for a new contract, the union committee has abandoned its showcase demands, e.g., a $30 weekly pay boost for a 30-hour week, settled for management's $7 offer, spread over two years. But to its bogus featherbed the I.T.U. clings for dear life...
Although the wives of heavy drinkers usually complain bitterly about their husbands' behavior, liquor can be the cement that holds the union together. Many a spouse of a souse, the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. William Browne told the A.P.A., has an unconscious need for an alcoholically incompetent mate, because only thus can she be dominant. Curing a husband of alcoholism. Dr. Browne said, may make the wife ill, even drive her to drink...
Died. YekaterinaVoroshilov,seventyish, wife of the Soviet Union's 78-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, whose title-Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet-is the paper equivalent of "President"'; in Moscow...
GENEVA, May 8--The Soviet Union demanded today that East German representatives be brought into the opening session of the Big Four foreign ministers conference tomorrow as full participants. The Western powers rejected the demand. The dispute created some uncertainty about the actual opening of the conference set for 2:30 p.m. Monday...