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Waist ilMKfMMVBMlWMAw tu.- a"-1 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16. 1963 A 3 Automation May Move at Faster Pace As Result of N.Y. Newspaper Dispute By H. D. QUIGG New York -HOT- How will the New York strike change the newspaper business? if the present militant stand of the printers union here should be come a pattern across the country, some sources believe automation would move at an ever faster pace into the com posing rooms of newspapers and commercial print shops. A strike of local 8, Inter national Typographical union, is a record breaker. The news paper publishers have charged that the union months ago adopted long-term warfare "A predetermined long-strike policy" as a principal weap on for this year. The strike-shutdown of New York's nine major newspapers is in its fifth week. They have lost an estimated $1.3 million daily in advertising in the pre-Christmas weeks and about $300,000 a day in cir culation revenue. Their 20,000 employees are estimated to be losing $3 million a week in wages. According to the magazine Business Week, eight of the affected newspapers all ex cept the Daily News, which has the largest circulation in America had strike insur ance. But the magazine said they expected to recoup from insurance only 30 to 50 per cent of their fixed costs, and none of the lost advertising and circulation income. May Work Together The insurance provided a maximum indemnity of $2V million for all papers in one city or under one labor con tract. The magazine said the New York papers would run through that limit early in January. One student of American labor has suggested that the situation with automated equipment on the increase and the boundary line between the craft unions in printing get ting more wavery might lead to a more centralized bargaining structure for all newspaper unions. The New York publishers have charged that the ITU "is determined" to impose on them "wage increases and con. ditions which, combined, will be beyond the earning capaci ty of the newspapers to sus tain, and could bankrupt one or more of the city's newspa pers as well as touch off a nation-wide wave of increased costs in the newspaper busi ness." They further assert they will resist increased costs which would endanger the very existence of newspapers in New York and "have wide spread repercussions extend' nig far beyond New York. The American Newspaper Publishers association, repre senting dailies in the United States and Canada, was more guarded in comment. Its La bor Relations committee in Chicago said there were 24 strikes against newspapers in 1962. It said U. S. dailies are local in character and labor negotiations should reflect that status. "However," it added, "it can be surmised that reper cussions of the New York strike may well be felt in ne gotiations in other areas of the country." Automation is prominently in the picture in the New Math Institute Is Slated at U of 0 Eugene-The University of Oregon has rcceived.a $65,300 grant from the National Sci ence Foundation for the spon sorship of an eight-week sum mer institute for high school mathematics teachers. The session, from June 17 to Aug. 9, will allow 50 teach ers from throughout the state, to participate. Stipends of not over $75 per week are to be awarded. The program of the insti tute is designed to enrich the mathematical backgrounds of the participants and to ac quaint them with the most modern developments in their field. Dr. A. F. Moursund, pro fessor of mathematics and head of the department at the University of Oregon, will di rect the institute. York situation. Amory H. Bradford, head of the publish' ers' negotiating committee, has said that in more than four months of bargaining Lo cal 6 "made no concessions to the publishers, though they know that we need relief in the form of increased produc tion, through changes in our teletypesetter (typesetting through punched tape that is fed into a machine) clause and through a reduction in the amount of bogus or made work in reproducing un need ed advertising." A startling insistence of au tomation was announced two weeks ago by the Los Angeles Times, which said that for a month it had been producing 50 columns of type for each dally run with an automatic typesetting system built around an electronic comput er. The system takes tape that is produced by the reporter's typewriter and runs the news copy through the computer and into automatic typesetting machines that eliminate the immediate human operator. Some industry observers sec the union's strong stand in New York as an opening round in a national move by the ITU not only to regain the dominance the printers once had among newspaper unions and lost in recent years to the pace - setting merican Newpaper guild o editorial workers but to control new processes. They include photo oifsct printing and other photo reproduction methods. LAW STUDENT DAY Salcm-lllrli-The State Jus tice Department will hold its fourth annual 1 aw students day Feb. 8, Atty. Gen. Robert Thornton said today. 13 Programs Are Offered in Courses Thirteen different educa tional programs totaling over 130 different courses in data processing and graphic arts will be offered at the Friden Educational Center at Roches ter. N.Y.. in 1963, Clifford C. Voight, manager of the Friden agency in Mcdford, reported. Free instruction in data processing is available throughout the year in four new areas, Voight said. 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