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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MtDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 1963 Resolute Personalities Involved in Strike Against New York Newspapers C 7 By H. D. QUIGG New York -il'Pil- The print ers who man the typesetting machines and do the hand work in composing rooms of the major New York newspa pers are locked in a war with the publishers tnat involves resolute personalities as well as local and long-range tactics. The month - long strike of Local 8, International Typo graphical Union, has led to a shutdown of operations at nine daily newspapers. One of the personalities be hind the strike is Bertram Anthony" Powers, 40, a tall, graying man with a soft voice but a steely trait of sticking to the point. He began as a printer at 17. Almost two years ago, he said that the pattern set in contracts by the carlier-sin-1 n g American Newspaper Guild, which represents edi torial and commercial work ers, was inadequate for print ers - that pattern negotiations in which the publishers sign with one union (at present, the guild) and expect the others to follow are no good. He ran for, and won, the Local 6 presidency on this ticket. He was going to re store the printers union to its traditional place of leadership among the 10 unions of New York newspaperdom. The unions are known collectively to the publishers as "the blood brotherhood." He points out that printers' basic day shift pay now is $141 a week and says "I guess the guy goes home with only about $110." ' If you ask him what the real heart of the issues at stake are, he replies: "Boul wareism." This is a word -coined from the name of Le muel R. Boulware, former in dustrial relations head at Gen eral Electric - which the union uses to describe a prac tice "in which the manage ment will decide in advance what the settlement will be." The printers claim the pub lishers do this by fixing a pat tern with one union. Faction Leader Powers is a member of the "progressive" faction of the union, as is Elmer Brown, a former Local 6 president who now is president of the parent union, the 115,000 - member ITU, with headquarters r.t Colorado Springs, Colo. Powers' principal public ad versary in the strike is 50-year-old Amory Howe Brad ford, vice president and gen eral manager of the New York Times. He is the head of 'he negotiating committee of the Publishers' Assoei a t i o n of New York City and its spokes man. Bradford is the son of a doctor; both his grandfathers were ministers; he was gradu ated from Yale law school in 1837 and rose from private to captain in c Army in World War II. He was a research-and-intclligence man for the Slate Department in 1945-46 and took leave from the Times in 1951-52 to be director of a NATO planning group in Lon don. Wanted To Strike Bradford has" charged 'he union with negotiating in "an Preparations Made For Music Meeting more me ill ore flavors Eugene-The University of Oregon school of music ' is making preparations for the 12th annual conference on music education, to be held in the Erb Memorial Student Union, Jan. 17-19. Clinics and lectures, read ing sessions, concerts and ex hibits have been arranged for the conference in addition to a banquet at 6:20 p.m., Friday in Room 108 of the student union. Max R i s i n g c r, assistant dean of the school of music, will be toastmaster. Dr. Louis Arnoud Reid, professor of philosophy at tile University of London who is now a visit ing professor at the Univer sity of Oregon, will be prin cipal speaker. Other conference speakers will be William Bil'mgslcy, member of the Spokane Sym phony Orchestra and profes sor of brass instruments at the University of Idaho; Rich aid Fcrrin who directs the Opera Orchestra at the Uni versity of Washington where he is a faculty member; Fred Hempke, music instructor at Northwestern University, and noted soloist and lecturer. Also scheduled to speak arc Irwin Hoffman, conductor of the Vancouver, B.C., Sym phony Orchestra; Ann Kern, a former elementary music specialist in Colorado, now employed as a clinician for a music publishing house; and Lynn Sjolund, cioral direc tor at Medford High school and former Oregon Music Educators association choral chairman. Correspondent Will Lecture at Oregon Eugene - A Pulitzer-Prizc-winhing Washington corre spondent will be on the Uni versity of Oregon campus in a double role during Febru ary. Clark R. Mollenhoff, corre spondent at Washington for the Cowlcs publications, will be the Eric Allen Memorial speaker at the 44lh Annual Press conference of the Ore gon Newspaper Publishers as sociation and the school of journalism Feb. 15. He will also spend several days earlier in the same week as a 50th Anniversary visit ing lecturer in the school of journalism. Mollenhoff's Allen memo rial address will deal with the "managed news" contro vcrsary that developed as a result of restrictions on press releases during the Cuban emergency. a t m o s D h e r e of unreality throughout, never changing its positions-that on the night the strike was called it seemed determined to strike first and negotiate later.' The printers must picket to draw strike benefits; they get about S97 a week for married men with dependents and SS9 for single men, drawn from the defense funds of the local and international unions. The non-striking unions are draw ing various benefits. Guilds men get S30, plus $10 for each dependent - the average is about $50. There has been some grum bling among the non-striking unions, but their leaders have supported the priters' right to strike. For instance the de liverers were ready to sign an $8.50-$10 two-year package when the printers rejected a $9.20 one and struck. Report ers in the halls heard plenty of deliverers grousing then. The guild's New York local was negotiating to borrow SI million. It set up a "hardship fund" for emergency-trouble families. Editorial men for tunate enough to get jobs were working at everything from banks to radio to warehouses. Many striking printers were working in job printing shops. Next: Move by automation. its Try unnamon on Hot Cereal Add teaspoon or so to cereal as it cooks, or sprinkle ocr sweet ened cereal. Be sere it's Crescent because we pack only choice cin namon from tne Far fast, selected lor extra aroma, flavor and color. 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