The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-25
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may make it one of the most significant labor eases in the country.
 The st. Petersburg Times is published by one of the most pro-labor men in the country, Nelson Poynter who fought labors right to bargain even in the days before Roosevelt and who has vigorously opposed the Florida Anti-Closed Shop Amendment On the other side of the picket line is Woodruff Randolph head of the International Typographical Union sometimes called the Petrillo of the printing trades.
 The issue is not wages but so-called made work. In the same way Petrillo has demanded that the small Chicago Radio Station WAAF hire three additional music librarians at $6O week when it only needs one, Randolph demands that newspapers set up the type for afternoon newspaper ads, even though the same ad already has run in the morning paper The extra ad, after being set up, Is then thrown into the melting pot.
 This duplication of work in order to increase printers payrols is one reason why small inde- pendent newspapers have difficulty staying in bus- ness Only way they compete with big city papers is to adopt streamned methods and the petrillo of the printing trades blocks the way.
 Publisher POynter ran into this road block last November when he wanted an arbitration clause in a new contract permitting the discussion of made work" Czar Randolph replied that such things were not arbitrable. strike followed
 Publisher Poynter however, continued to publish. He used photoengraving instead of lnotypes and struggled along without printers. More than seven months have passed and his printers are still strike. though A. F. of L. pressmen and stereotyp- CTS have not only worked but crossed picket lines under instructions from their international unions
 Poynter, however, made one mistake which now has brought the National Labor Relations Board-an organization which he enthusiastically supported his neck
 During the strike the St. Petersburg Times merged its mechanical work with the St. Petersburg Independent forming new company And during talk with the striking printers in January two months after the strike started, Poynter remarked that he was under obligation to bargain with them because the new company had replaced the old
 Because of this remark the NIiRB cracked down on the St. Petersburg Times, charging that Poynter has refused to bargain. The NLRB regional head in Atlanta who ordered the crack-down is Paul Styles former member of the International Typographers Union and 8 close friend of Printer CZar Randolph
 Hearings being held in Florida. Outcome of the case will influence the future of "ade-work" in the printing industry and most important of al whether small independent newspapers stay in business
 Robert Murphy, political adviser to General Mo- NarEey in Berlin and the man who played ball with the Vichyites has secretly sent bitter complaint to the State Department because the Russians have redstributed the estates of the Prussan Junkers in the Soviet zone of Germany The Russians have broken up some 10000 large estates among about 275OO0 peasants Despite the fact that the Potsdam Agreement specifically called for breaking up large estates, Murphy has warned Washington that this land reform in the Russian zone is endangerng the Western type of democracy we want to see in Ger many