CLUB AIDS VICTIMS OF SHUTDOWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400150046-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: September 25, 1965
• Content Type: BULL

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5 ER 25, 1965
Club Aids
Victims of
Shutdown
An Emergency Placement Committee
to help newsmen displaced by New
.York's current newspaper strike has gone
ipto action at the urgent request of OPC
President Merrill Mueller.
All but one of New York',s major
dailies closed down Sept. 17 after the
Newspaper Guild of New York struck
The New York. Times. -All city ypaperp
which are members of the -Publisher's.
Association also shut down operations
in a unanimity move. The New York Post,
which withdrew from the Publisher's
Association during the 114-day strike in
1962-63, continued publication.
The Emergency, Committee, headed
by Steve Korsen, chairman of the OPC's
regular Placement Committee, last week
circulated offers of skilled men and
women to advertising, public relations
and other professional groups in the
Metropolitan area.
the Committee urges any OPCer
who knows of a job opening to call Kor-
sen or Doug Hearle at MU 7-4100 or
Dick Barr at PE 6-1493.
Special assignments of part-time
jobs are needed. Members of the New
York working press, among them some of
the top professionals in the country,
are available (pending strike settlement)
for all phases of editorial work - fea-
tures, 'magazine articles, public rela-
tions, ' speechwriting, books, photogra-
phy, research, special events, and all
similar 'projects.
Called The New York City Emergen-
cy Newspaper Placement Committee,the
group is composed of Harold' Phelan,
Newspaper' Reporters Association; Jesse
Bogue, Financial Writers Association;
Eugene I3aggertyI Society of'the Silur-
nie 's` drub s Terry Mayer,Publicity Club
of ew York; Robert Fitz Gibbon, Public
Relations Society of America, New York
Chapter; Daniel Grossi, Press Photo-
graphers Association; Ed Silverman,
Radio - Newsreel-TV Working Press;
and Mueller, representing the OPC.
The current Committee represents
essentially the same organizations
which assisted professionals during the
1962-63 strike and again when The New
York Mirror ceased publication.
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