PRESSMEN RATIFY PACT AT NEW YORK'S STRUCK WORLD JOURNAL TRIBUNE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401270001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 29, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? AUG 2 9 1966
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Tressmen Ratify Pact,
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At New York's Struck
f.; World Journal Tribune
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Vote of 263-208 Removes Last Big
? Hurdle to Publication of Merged
Paper; Sept. 6 Start Mentioned .1.:
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NEW YORK-(AP)-The rank and file of,
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.- ? T4.:???. the Pressmen's Union narrowly approved a
s- contract with World Journal Tribune, Inc., re.1
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of the new corporation's afternoon-and Sunday.
?, newspaper.
The vote; announced yesterday shortly 'af.;".
ter the longest newspaper strike in the city's',
' history entered its 127th day, was 263 to 2084 '
Nine other unions still must negotiate re?'.
adjustments in contracts agreed upon before.
the demise of the morning Herald Tribune,
Aug. 15, but' unionleaders saw little difficulty.:
. Tuesday; Sept.' .6-the day after Labor Day,
, .
i.:-has been held' but as the Possible date fori
..."publication of the first World Journal Tribune!:
The Pressmen's Union contract calls for a? .
;71/2-hour Saturday night work turn. The length',..
iof that work turn had :been the key snag,i
;with the. union holding out for 6% hours' and: !,
.the publishers for 8-the same as at the News.:'
and Times. ?
In a memorandum on the contract, signed.
iby the union's president, William J. Kennedy,i
;.the union leaders said they, agreed "to pay
mum of $14,000 plus the elasticity of the, lunchi
'period for the reduction."
Under the agreement, management can,':
-ks:.send pressmen to lunch. anywhere from 2%; ?
!hours to 5 hours into the work turn. .
Mr. Kehnedy announced after the stormy'
'meeting that "there is a possibility that wei
might all return to work by Sept. 6."
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moving the 'last major barrier to publication. ?
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The publishing company, formed this spring
:through a merger of the afternoon Journal':
;American and the World Telegram & the Sun',
t and the morning Herald. Tribune, was to have:
published 'its first paper April 25. But
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New York Newspaper Guild struck on April.;.;
24, and nine craft unions followed suit. One:
by one?the unions settled, until only the press.'
'men .vere left. ? .
With talks it a 'stalemate, the 'publishers .;.?
..,announced Aug. 15 that they were. folding the!
Ilerald.Tribune, a newspaper with roots going:,
t back 131 years, and would publish 'only 'ttri,
';afternoon and a Sunday 'paper, eath. to be-
called the World Journal .Tribune. ' - .:? ' .
' The Contract also calla for extra severance ???
. pay 'for, pressmen displaced by the merger, Va
;ication credits, and additionatwellare'and pen
?,alon beneflt.s ,???
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Declassified in Part - S .
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013 /12/19 : CIA-RDP7-00475R0004:0127.0061'-3 ?