MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MtDFORD, OREGON
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 1963
Resolute Personalities Involved in
Strike Against New York Newspapers
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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.
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