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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16. 1963
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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. These
areas are government data
processing applications, insur
ance agency data processing,
computer input-OMtptit pro
gramming, and output pro
gramming for Friden add
punch numeric encoding.
Five expanded courses from
last year's program will also
be offered.
Indonesians Chased
By Erupting Volcano
Jakarta, Indonesia - OTP -Nine
more villages have been
evacuated on remote Ternata
Island following the eruption
of Gamalama Volcano.
The official Antara news
agency said Tuesday hundreds
of panicky refugees havo
crowded into the main town
on Ternate Island. Prepara
tions were being made to
move them to refugee camps
on the nearby Isle of Tidore.
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