Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-15
New 1eleiypesetfer
Is Believed Factor
In ITU Publishing Bid
By the Associated Press

by me ASSocioteo rfesS
A unions plans to publish nine
new daily newspapers to combat
"the monopoly newspaper situa-
ton" appeared today to be i'm
portantly concerned also with the
growing use of Teletypesetters.
These devices, which cut down
the number of jobs in newspaper
composing room, are being in
stalled in more and more news
papers. Some have been put In
after strikes were called by the
union. the International Typo
graphical Union, and some for rea-
sons of general economy.
A paper which uses Teletype-
setter gets its wire service news In
the form of a perforated tape. This
tape is run through a device at
tached to Linotype and trips the
mechanism which sets the type.
The ITU, announcing it plans to-
start the publication Of new tab
loidS in nine cities, said their type
would be set by Linotype opera
tors.
Areas Are Listed.
1.-THE skilled Linotype operator
and the smooth running Linotype
machine, operated as it was de-
signed to operate without the
Teletypesetter gadgets, is still the
best combination for newspaper
typesetting," ITU President Wood
ruff Randolph said in q sample
first edition of the Texarkana
cTexo Daily News-Digest.
The ITU said it would start
papers In Texarkana, Allentown.
Pa; Monroe. La; Springfield, Mo-:
Meridian, Conn.,; Lorain, Ohio,
and Huntington, Beckley and
Charleston, w. Va.
Don Hurd, secretary-treasurer
OF the union, said at Indianapolis
yesterday that the reason for Sc
lection Of the nine cities was the
monopoly newspaper situation"
In each.
Mr.. Hurd said that the plant in
Charleston, where monopoly is
not a factor, will publish the
Beckley and Huntington editions
also. He said the paper will be
circulated in Charleston "as long
as the papers there are unfair
In Charleston. there are two
papers. the Daily Mail In the
afternoon and the Gazette in the
morning. They have no connection
with each other.
They offered mo comment. on
the new paper.
The TTU went on strike against
the Daily Mail in October, 1s4s.
and is still picketing the plant,
which operates with both Tele-
typesetters and manually operated
Llnotypes. The Gazette employs
some ITU members in its com
posing room but does not have nj,
contract with the union.
Plant Still Picketed.
The I. T. U. struck the Monroe.
La, News-Star-W World January
10. 1850, and is still picketing |
from time to time. The paper
uses Teletypesetters.
Teletypesetters also are used by
the Huntington, w. Va, papers,
against which the union went on
strike nearly three years ago.
1t was three years ago, too, that
the I. T. U. struck the Allentown,
Pa, CALI Chronicle. The strike
ended with about one-third of
the workers returning to their
jobs without union and the
other two-thirds finding other
jobs. Teletypesetters are used
there.
william D. Reimert, managing |
editor Of the. Call Chronicle 1
papers. said Of the unions plans |
to start a daily in Allentown: "It
will be an interesting experience
We shall watch it with a great
deal of interest. I'm sure other
publishers also will"
One of the established pub
fishers that the I. T. U. is bucking 1
is c. E. Palmer, of Texarkana,
Tex, who operates what is per-
haps the Oldest private Teletype-
setter circuit, linking ten cities.
He is the publisher of the
Texarkana News and Gazette and
other papers.
Twenty-nine ITU members
struck the News and Gazette July
20, 1850. over the issue of giving
the union jurisdiction over tele-
typesetters. Seventeen struck Mr..
Palmer's FL Dorado papers the
same day, with the same issue.
A few days later ITU members
resigned at Hot Springs, Ark.
papers.
Begins Publication Tuesday.
The unions Texarkana paper
is to begin publishing Tuesday, as
a five-day afternoon paper. It
won't publish on Saturdays or
Mondays. J. @. Mahaffey, man
aging editor of the Gazette and
News, said yesterday most of the
composing room employees of the
ITU paper were with the Gazette
and News until they abandoned
their jobs" last July.
An ITU strike also is still un-
derway in Springfield, Mo-. having
begun July IL, 1919, when IS
printers walked out in wage dis
pute. Springfield's morning and
evening dailies never missed an
edition, however. using non-union
printers and teletypesetters.
The Beckley. w. Va, papers.
where the ITU went on strike last /
December, are operating with the
aid of teletypesetters and the |
union is still picketing.
Machines Set off Strike.
The TTU struck Lorain. Ohio.
Journal in 1850 in a dispute over
use of Teletypesetting machines.
The Journal uses five employees.
Editor Malcolm D. Hartley of /
the Lorain Journal said in a state |
ment, TITS free country, but the |