Evening star., 1947-02-03
Publication Resumed
By Kansas City Star;
Other SfrikesCo Continue
BY the Assoeioted Press

by the Associated Press
The Kansas City Star resumed
publication today after 17-day
lapse while other months-old news
paper strikes at scattered points
throughout the Nation continued.
The Star resumed publication
after |the management reached an
agreement with carriers and press
men, .both members of the Inter-
national Printing Pressmen and
Assistants Union, AFL. The car
riers had asked recognition of the
union as their bargaining agent and
the management contended they
were independent merchants.
The agreement provided for re-,
sumption of distribution while "a
study of the legal status of the
carriers is to be made"
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia
Record and the Camden IN. J)
Courier-Post had been discontinued
following their sale to the Evening
Bulletin of Philadelphia. The sus-
pension Of the Record and the two
Camden papers left Camden-popu-
lation approximately ,000-with-
out a daily newspaper and Philadel-
phia with three English-language
dailies.
No Offer for Properties Yet.
The sale of the papers by Pub
Usher j. David Stern resulted from
the November 7 walkout of more
than 500 members of the American
Newspaper Guild, CIO.
Richard Slocum, general mana
ger of the Evening Bulletin, says
that so faf mo serious offers have
been made for the properties, but
we would welcome some"
The Guild voted Yesterday to con7
time the strike against the sus-
pended papers, adding that any new
owner would have to deal with the
Guild.
Other strikes have affected news
papers in Rochester, N. Y; Spring
field. Mass; Clovis, N. Mex, and
Trenton, N, j.
Rochester has been without local
dailies since November as the re-
suit of strike by members of the
International Typographical Union,
AFL, against the Morning Demo-
crat and Chronicle and the after
noon Times Union.
One Dispute Brings Others.
The strike began over wage dis
pute between the papers and ITU
members, with stereotypers, press
men, mailers and photoengravers
becoming involved in separate dis
putes several days later.
The newspapers reached agree
ment with the ITU January 5, but
publication still is halted over the
demands of pressmen, mailers and
stereotypers for full pay for the
time they remained idle.
The Trenton strike, which has
been in progress since January II,
1916, resulted from dispute be-
tween the afternoon Times and the
TTU over wages and working condi-
tions.
After the walkout, the striking
printers started weekly newspaper,
the Trentonian, which was expanded
TO morning daily last fall with the
ITU as its financial hacker The
Times hired nonunion printers and
yontinued publication.
Springfield Offer Rejected.
Striking Guild members and me-
aanica1 employees have shut down
our dailies in Springfield since Sep
amber. Management made a new.
?ffer to the union last week but ITU
representatives last Thursday re-
ected the offer on the grounds the
.}roposed settlement offered no union
ecurlty and failed to specify the
lumber OF persons to be returned
work.
Failure to agree on a closed shop
"lause in new contract resulted in
lie three-month-old walkout of
-rinters on the Clovis News Journal
The newspaper still is publishing.