Evening star., 1953-12-07
Negotiations Resume
In Newspaper Strike;
Engrdvers 10 Meet
BY the Asseeiated Press


NEW YORK, Dec. Union
photoengravers today called a
membership meeting for Wednes-
day in their 10-day-old strike
against six major New York daily
newspapers.
Denis M. Burke, president of
Local /, AFL International
Photoengravers' Union, an
nounced the call as he arrived
for scheduled talks with the pub
fishers and Federal mediators.
Mr.. Burke said the meeting,
the first membership session in
a week, would be held "even if
only to make a report to the
members"
Rejected ArbitratiOns.
At the meeting a week ago the
Nnion membership rejected arbi-
tration for a second time, but
scaled demands down from a
SIS to a $3.50 weekly package.
Mr.. Burke has indicated that
any proposal made by the pub
fishers below that figure would
require membership approval.
This probably would mean that
the strike would continue at
least two days more.
Mr.. Burke was an hour late
for the resumption of bargaining
sessions called by Walter A.
Maggiolo, general counsel of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia-
ton Service.
Before Mr.. Burke arrived, Mr..
Maggiolo and two other Federal
mediators conferred with repre-
Sentatives of the publishers.
Mr.. Maggiolo called for the
talks after meeting last night
with representatives of the AFL
Allied Printing Trades Council.
whose members have been refus-
ing to cross picket lines set up
by the Photoengravers' Union.
10000 Idle in Dispute.
The photoengravers struck the
newspapers in dispute over
wages and other contract issues.
About 400 photographers are
involved, and their picket lines
have idled 10000 employees be-
longing to the CIO American
Newspaper Guild and the press
mems, StereotyperS', printers
and mailers' afiliates of the
Printing Trades Council and
other unionists.
Yesterday brought these two
developments in the strike:
/. Resumption of publication
by the New York Herald Tribune.
the only one of the city'S major
newspapers not involved in the
'engravers' dispute. The Herald
Tribune, which stopped publica-
ton a week ago in sympathy
with the other papers, put out
adless Sunday and Monday edi-
tions of eight pages each.
2. Spirited activity among rep
resentatives of the two sides as
mediators twice scheduled joint
negotiations which did not ma
terialize. In both cases it de-
veloped that officials Of various
unions involved were meeting
secretly and unexpectedly with
Mr.. Maggiolo and other medi-
ators.
Held Private Meeting.
The disputants first had been
scheduled to meet at 10 am. yes
terday. Publisher representatives
waited for more than three
hours before learning that union
officials had been meeting pri-
vately, at least for part Of the
time with Federal conciliators.
For good and welfare"
The mediators then met sepa-
rately with subcommittee of the
two sides, and in early evening
Mr.. Maggiolo said the full COM
mitteeS would resume talks at 10
p. m.
Again publisher representatives
appeared, so did some union
delegates, including Edward j.
Volz, the international president
of the engravers' union. How
ever, the mediators and Mr..
Burke again we're absent without
explanation.
Meets With Council Officials.
Early today Mr.. Maggiolo re-
vealed that he had been meeting
with officials of the Allied Print
ing Trades Council. He said Mr..
Burke was present, but declined
to say whether the newspaper
guild was represented.