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...dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), has sharply divided the Premier's own Christian Democratic Party; the coalition's major legislative accomplishment-the needless and expensive nationalization of the electrical industry, which...
...negotiation table a stubbornness to match the printers' intransigence. Nor have the newspapers exhibited much will to meet their keystone responsibility to stay in print somehow-even by makeshift-which is just what Portland's two daily newspapers did three years ago. during a mass walkout that is still in effect. For his part, Bert Powers could have kept his men working at their jobs while he bargained with men whom only his own blindness prevents him from recognizing as reasonable...
...other side of the scrap stood the Publishers Association of New York, a management team organized in iSg; for the express purpose of presenting labor with a united front. From experience, most recently the 1958 walkout of deliverymen that gagged New York's press for 19 days, the association has evolved a simple strategy: to close all member papers as soon as one is struck. Thus, when the I.T.U. picketed four papers, the publishers promptly closed five more: the Herald Tribune, the Mirror and the Post in Manhattan, and Samuel Newhouse's two Long Island dailies, the Press...
Cleveland entered its third week without newspapers-even though Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...
Inadequate Substitute. Though the walkout came at the peak of the Christmas shopping season, New York's papers had already carried the major portion of their gift advertising before they stopped the presses. Those that publish Sunday papers managed also to get ad-packed editions, made up of early-printed sections, off the presses before the walkout...