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...they got union benefits ranging up to $60 a week. (Some of the strikers had found work in job shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same...
...most newspapers, payroll savings had balanced both the increased engraving costs and the expense of installing Vari-Typers and similar equipment from International Business Machines. The Trib, which used to pay its 460 printers about $45,000 a week, now pays its 161 VariType operators only $10,000 a week. By putting more money and more thought than its rivals into developing the new process, the Trib had gotten the best results. In news coverage and news play, also, it was still Chicago's liveliest sheet. Nevertheless, its circulation had slumped-from 1,010,000 at the strike...
...Which transfers Vari-Typed copy to a zinc plate and then to a rubber roller which prints it, thus eliminating metal type and the costlier flat-bed press which small papers ordinarily...
...months the U.S. press has watched a forced adventure in journalism-newspapers produced by Vari-Type, without benefit of striking printers or linotype machines. Last week, in New Haven, the oldest U.S. college daily carried the experiment a step further. In its first issue of the new college year, the Yale Daily News (est. 1878) came out in a new dress that combined Vari-Type with photo-offset printing,* the first U.S. daily...
...printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting its tabloid size from an average eight pages daily to twelve...