NEWS GUILD BALKS AT 'PROFESSIONAL'; Calls 'Publisher's Bid Threat to Collective Bargaining
Date: 13 September 1975
By DIANE HENRY Special to The New York Times
Diane Special
Newspaper Guild, at hearings before NLRB on Sept 12, argues that if reporters, editors and cartoonists are separated from other newspaper employes in labor negotiations it would destroy collective bargaining relationship and practices in news media; basic question labor bd is being asked to resolve is whether some newspaper employes are 'professionals'; if so, they could not, by Fed labor law, be included in bargaining unit of nonprofessional employes unless majority of professionals voted to be included; case involves Express-News Corp of San Antonio, where publisher is asking bd to define reporters, writers and other newspaper employes as 'professionals'; Guild and ITU join forces at hearing by arguing that law states that professional is someone 'requiring knowledge of advanced type in field of science or learning customarily acquired by prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study'; Guild and ITU contend that most newspapers do not require their ed personnel to hold coll degrees (M)
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Sulzberger Sees Rising Conflict Of Press vs. Courts on Secrecy
Date: 13 September 1975
NY Times publisher Arthur O Sulzberger addresses annual meeting of Second Judicial Circuit of US; discusses what he calls 'judicial secrecy,' growing conflict between judiciary and the press over issue of secrecy (M)
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Indians Release Journalist Jailed During Crackdown
Date: 13 September 1975
Indian Govt on Sept 12 releases Kuldip Nayar, sr editor of Indian Express, 1st prominent person known to have been freed since Prime Min Indira Gandhi began arresting Govt opponents on June 26; Nayar says Govt exacted no conditions from him in exch for his freedom; other sr journalist still under detention is K R Malkani, editor of The Motherland (S)
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Price of Times to Be 25c Outside 50-Mile Radius
Date: 13 September 1975
NY Times on Sept 12 announces that effective Sept 15 it will increase price of its weekday issues to 25c from 20c outside radius of 50 miles from NYC, except on LI, where price will remain at 20c (S)
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Mrs. Ruckelshaus Says a Woman Should Preside at G.O.P. Parley
Date: 13 September 1975
Jill Rickelshaus, former counselor to Pres Nixon, criticizes media reptg of women's activities; cites reptg of UN conf on Internatl Women's Yr
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President Bars House Unit From Seeing Secret Data; PRESIDENT BARS DATA FROM PANEL
Date: 13 September 1975
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Pres Ford orders that HR Select Intelligence Com be cut off from all classified documents; forbids Adm officials to testify before com on classified matters; demands return of classified material now in com's hands; at center of dispute is com's decision to make public 4 words from '73 intelligence agency summary over objection of intelligence community officials; sources say 4 words are 'and greater communications security,' which were part of a 1-paragraph intelligence summary concerning Egypt prepared by Defense Intelligence Agency and dated Oct 6 '73, the day '73 Arab-Israeli war broke out; Mitchell Rogovin, counsel for CIA Dir, tells com that intelligence agencies believe words compromise natl security by revealing 'sources and methods' used to gather intelligence; CIA Dir William E Colby says he believes that keeping words secret is worth risking a const confrontation between Pres and HR (L)
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