Manuscripts
Pressroom 1962 Campaign
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.
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Pressroom 1967 Campaign
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, form letters, flyers, originating with Times Mirror and with the Pressmen's Union. Times Mirror-produced materials urge pressmen not to "fall under the control of Local 18," while the union materials urge the pressmen to "stand with your fellow pressmen" under union representation: copies of 3-part series in Nation's Business, (11/1966 - 1/1967), "What to do when the union knocks"; related materials.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1963
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: LAT materials--memos, open letters, flyers--aimed at discouraging pressroom employees from supporting union representation. An LAT article (copy in folder) for 6/29/1963 was headlined "Pressmen vote against union at L.A. Times." The story read, in part, "Pressmen at (LAT) have voted 202 to 187 against the AFL-CIO International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union Local 18 as their bargaining agent....The pressmen voted for the union in an NLRB election in April, 1962, but 58 subsequent negotiation meetings failed to bring about a contract agreement...In April the pressroom employees petitioned the NLRB for a new election..."
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Departments - Production - Pressroom - Union
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items: memos and other correspondence between LAT staffers, and correspondence between LAT and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America; material related to the contract between LAT and IPPAU; materials related to Pressroom schedules; a grievance filed by a Mr. Salazar against a pressroom supervisor (Mr. Ferry).
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Pressroom - Otis Booth
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items: correspondence with pressroom managers at The Lincoln Star (NE), Miami Herald, and the Trade Commissioner of New Zealand related to pressroom machinery; memos on pressroom practices, pressroom crew assignments, 59-pp. copy, top sheet headed "Index," with "Otis Booth" written in at top, Agreement between Times Mirror Co., and International Printing Pressmen...etc.; etc. Several pieces of correspondence in the time frame center on the characteristics of the Cutler-Hammer ink-mist suppression system for presses.
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Pressroom Communications - Otis Booth
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Materials include: memos on subjects such as "Special Communications relating to pressroom," "Status of union in pressroom,"Otis Chandler's report on his meeting with pressmen," etc. Also a "Union Coloring Book" (8-pp., 81/2" x 11'), sample caption for color-in cartoons - "This is the (union) ... by-laws - color it ominous"; other anti-union, cartoon-style materials; memo to "Management Personnel, 6/26/1963 (one day before the election) instructing management personnel to stay away from the 6th floor polling place during the election, so that nothing they do "might be construed as an unfair labor practice"; clipping from Time (mag), 5/24/1963, "Newspapers-living with the scars," an account of aftermath of 114-day newspaper strike in NYC; etc.
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