Strike-bound N.Y. daily starts ‘dial-a-paper’

Press, 15 August 1978, Page 9

Strike-bound N.Y. daily starts ‘dial-a-paper’

NZPA New York: The strike-shuttered New i York “Daily News” has an-1 i nounced it will attempt to i reach its readers another way — the telephone. The newspaper plans to I run a "dial-a-’Daily News’.” The one-minute recording ii jwill feature regular colum-| Ir.ists and give a news report. which will be updated 1 hourly. Printing-press operators at the “New York Times,” the i [‘Daily News,” and the “New pork Post.” with a combined daily circulation of more I than three million, walked i but last Wednesday when frianagements introduced 1 bules which the union said i pould cut the number of i

: press operators about 50 perl (cent. I Federal mediators were (called in for the resumption (of talks yesterday but neither side has so far shown j any sign of yielding over the (cuts, which management I says are required for econ(omic reasons. Sales of suburban and out-of-town newspapers have increased during the strike and local television and radio stations have stepped up their news programmes. , The “News World” — aj daily newspaper published in i New York by supporters of; the Korean evangelist, Sun! Myung Moon — expanded' from 24 to 32 pages yester-I day. It has increased its! daily output from 50,000 to : l

1300,000 copies and a spokesjman said it had been sold out each day of the strike. George McDonald, chief of the Allied Trades Council which includes the operators and eight other unions, said the city could be without newspapers for as long as six months. The strike means that New Yorkers are without their main source for employment and housing advertisements. One employment agency (said it planned to establish a (temporary office in Grand (Central Station. i Department stores, unable (to use newspapers for advertising, paid out-of-work I actors to distribute handbills. |