NEWSPAPER STRIKE
No New York Dailies IN.ZP Copyright) NEW YORK. Dec. 11. A new bid to end New York's four-day-old newspaper strike will be made today by the United States Labour Secretary (Mr Willard Wirtz). Mr Wirtz announced test night that he would meet representatives of the striking Compositors’ Union and with publishers an hour later. The Labour Secretary’s decision to join the negotiations followed three days of fruitless talks in which both sides predicted a long strike.
Mr Bertram Powers, of the Typographical Union, commented last night that “we are farther apart today than we halve been.” and Mr Amory Bradford, for the publishers, said he was “not hopeful." The strike, owr a wages dispute, affected nine newspapers with a total circulation of 5.500.000 and left 20,000 employees, idle. It hit the publishers in the middle of the Christmas rush, when department store advertising reaches its peak, and left nine million New Yorkers without a local daily paper. Small weekly papers transferred to daily publications, but many New Yorkers were buying papers brought in from Boston. Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 30004, 13 December 1962, Page 19
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