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...typographers demanded twice the amount the publishers settled for with the Guild, plus shorter hours and new fringe benefits, including increased vacations. When the walkout came, some publishers put the blame squarely on Bertram A. Powers, 40, tough president of the New York Typographical Union No. 6. They charged that Powers is trying to make a name for himself with a successful strike against the big-city dailies. According to this reasoning, Powers deliberately set his union's demands at an unacceptable high. Said one disgusted publisher: "Powers wants a deed to the premises...
...STRUCK-NOT STRUCK OUT." boasted the New York Daily News in a Page One headline. But there was little enough to brag about. Despite a walkout of 1,123 Newspaper Guild members, the News struggled into print with one skimpy 16-page issue-run off on Hearst's Journal-American presses. Then the News suspended publication, the first and so far the only strike-bound Manhattan daily in what had originally looked like a management-labor showdown...
Across Britain last week, the symptoms of what other Europeans call "the English disease" were alarming. In Coventry, 300 deliverymen went on strike for three days. At Ford's Halewood plant. 600 electricians walked out. maintaining the company's five-year average of one walkout a week. In Edinburgh, the Scottish building workers threatened to pull 100,000 men off construction sites...
Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters started the strike in the first place, by leading four other shop unions in a walkout April 12−a movement sympathetically, if not enthusiastically, joined by the American Newspaper Guild. As the other unions trickled back to work, the Teamsters stubbornly held out; they settled only after pinching an extra penny or two an hour more than anyone else. The long layoff cost both sides dearly: an estimated $12.5 million in revenue for the papers, some $3,000,000 in wages for the strikers. But the Minneapolis strike raised a question that was even...
Nothing in recent memory has so shaken the 812,000-member National Education Association as the recent teachers' strike in New York City. The walkout was blunt warning of the new strength of N.E.A.'s rival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. American Federation of Teachers, which today has 80,000 members and is growing fast in the big cities...