Guild Strike at Washington Post Is in 2d Week, With Outlook Dim; Seeks Advertising Boycott
Date: 15 April 1974
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
Philip SHABECOFF
Newspaper Guild strike against Washington Post enters its 2d wk with no agreement in sight; strike is unusual in that Guild is making no attempt to shut newspaper down but instead has adopted technique of members 'withdrawing their excellence,' by withholding their services; guild chmn Robert Levey says that many reporters believe that they can reduce quality of newspaper to point where mgt will be willing to make concessions (M)
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NEWSPAPER TALKS OFF INDEFINITELY; Printers and Publishers Fail to-Agree on a Truce Offer, Creating New Impasse
Date: 16 April 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
contract talks between printers and NY Times, NY News and NY Post on April 15 are recessed indefinitely after talks reach new impasse resulting from union's refusal to agree to 3-wk truce and publishers' refusal to stop training typists to do printers' work until injunctions banning job action are lifted; mediator Theodore Kheel meets with 2 sides; News vp Walter K Graham says that he had proposed to ITU pres Bertram A Powers a 3-wk interim agreement during which training of typists will be halted in return for union ban against job action while talks continue; Powers rejects proposal, objecting that it would go well beyond scheduled ct actions in which he hopes to be released from no-strike clause in union's old contract (M)
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A Man Of the Old South
Date: 16 April 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker tribute to Arthur Krock
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Patrolmen's Association Honors Photographers
Date: 15 April 1974
PBA names Larry Morris (NY Times) winner of its '74 reptg award
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