Newspaper Talks Here Snagged on Fate of Substitute Printers as Automation Spreads
Date: 11 April 1974
By ALLAN M. SIEGAL
single most important issue involved in current negotiations between NY Times, NY Daily News, NY Post and ITU is that of automation and job guarantees for part-time printers; automation measures which papers plan to utilize include optical scanner and video terminal which would simplify and could eliminate jobs performed by linotype operators and proofreaders (M)
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Times Wins an Extension Of Writ Restraining Union; Union Telegram Read Powers Is 'Bitter' Wage Offer Rejected
Date: 12 April 1974
BY DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NYS Sup Ct Justice Harold Baer on April 11 extends for 1 wk injunction barring printers at NY Times from interfering with newspaper's operations; recesses hearing on motion by Times to find ITU Local 6 and its leadership guilty of criminal contempt for holding 90-min union meeting during working hrs on April 10; urges printers and publishers of Times, News and Post to resume immediately their negotiations for new contract; says he will not rule on question of contempt until after hearing on April 18; declines to go along with plea made by union leaders that without right to strike or take job action they cannot negotiate; Local 6 pres Bertram A Powers contends that telegram he recd on April 11 from ITU pres John J Pilch releases local from its old contract and no-strike clause contained in it; goes to Times where he repts on developments to printers at 20-min meeting authorized by mgt (L)
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TIMES PRINTERS APPLY PRESSURE; Court Order Served on Union After Meeting Delays Work Times Printers Apply Pressure; Union Is Served With a Show-Cause Order Some Ads Not Set Contract Violation Charged Package Offer Made
Date: 11 April 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
ITU Local 6 pres Bertram A Powers and other union leaders on April 11 are directed to show cause in NYS Sup Ct why they should not be found in contempt for holding 90-min union meeting at NY Times during working hrs on April 10; showdown between union and Times, NY Daily News and NY Post appears to be approaching; work interruption follows by a little more than 2 hrs union's announcement that its members had voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike at time to be decided by exec council of ITU; Times obtains ct order contending that Powers and other leaders violated injunction Times obtained last fall enjoining interference by union with its operations; Powers says, after order was served on him in Times bldg, that he does not plan any further union meetings before ct hearing, except for brief one to explain to printers that show-cause order had been issued (L)
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Post Talks in Recess
Date: 11 April 1974
Negotiations between Washington Post and reprs of about 900 striking editorial and commercial employes are in recess on April 10; Fed Mediation and Conciliation Service reprs Nicholas Fidandis repts substantial differences still exist between Newspaper Guild and paper (S)
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Porter Gets 30-Day Term For Lying on Watergate; Term Starts April 22 Skepticism by Judge
Date: 12 April 1974
Special to The New York Times
Fed Judge William B Bryant suspends all except 30 days of 15-month prison term Herbert L Porter is sentenced to for lying to FBI about transfer of Nixon re-election campaign funds to convicted Watergate burglar G Gordon Liddy; Porter and wife illus (S)
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The Forgotten Realities; UNITED NATIONS
Date: 12 April 1974
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston notes scarcity of news coverage of current UN meetings between producers and consumers of oil, bauxite, food and other raw materials
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