Evening star., 1963-01-11
Report Is Due
In New York's
Paper Strike

NEW YORK, Jan. II (AP)
A fact-finding board of three
1urists reports today on its in
quiry into a printers strike
that has resulted in a blackout
Of New York'S nine major
newspapers for 35 days.
The exact time the report
will be issued was not known.
The board scheduled a final
hearing for 2::30 pm, indicat-
ing its report would not be is
sued until late afternoon or
evening.
The fact-finding panel was
set up last Sunday by Federal,
State and local officials.
Publishers are cooperating
with the survey panel. But it
has been boycotted by Bertram
A. Powers. head Of Local 6,
international typographical
Union, AFL-CIO, pending a
membership meeting Sunday.
However, the board has been
getting the unions side despite
the absence Of Powers.
Report Not Binding
The report will not be bind
ing on either side, but the
board hopes to crystalline the
issues in order to encourage a
settlement.
The panels chairman, Harold
r. Medina, retired judge of the
United States Circuit Court of
Appeals. said last night Of the
pending report:
II am hopeful that what we
have done here will be Of use
in this particular situation and
in the future"
In Cleveland, strikes by Local
473 OF the independent Team
sters Union and the Cleveland
Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO,
against the city's two news
papers went into its seventh
week today.
Representatives of the Plain |
Dealer and the Press g. News,
both shut down, met last night |
with the Teamsters at city hall |
along with Mayor Ralph S.
Locher and Federal Mediator
Gilbert j. Seldin.
Bargaining teams for the two
newspapers and the Guild re-
sumo sessions tomorrow. Wages,
working conditions and union
security are in dispute.
Talks Recessed
Mediation talks to end the
New York walkout were re-
cessed indefinitely Wednesday
night. Amory H. Bradford, vice
president of the New York
Times, is chairman of the ne
gotiating committee of the
Publishers Association of New
York City, which represents all
the shutdown newspapers.
The strike by 5000 printers
started December 8, and has
cost an estimated $40 million in
lost wages, advertising and
circulation revenues.
A group of union pressmen
idled by the walkout won yes
terday a Federal court review
of the publishers role in the
strike. The publishers of the
nine dailies and the publishers
association we're ordered to
show cause next Tuesday why
they should not resume pubh-
cation. Thirteen pressmen, in
behalf of 1900 fellow workers,
filed the suit, asking $6,675, 900
in claimed antitrust damages.
Previously, the AFL-CIO press
mems union had filed similar
suits against some individual
papers asking a total of
$4,000 in damages.
The treble-damage suit filed
by the 13 pressmen alleged a
lockout.
The suit charged that on
May /, 1861, the association
and its members entered into a
conspiracy in restraint of trade
and commerce.
Conspiracy Contention
The complaint said the al
legged conspiracy brought about
an agreement among the de-
PENDANTS that If any craft un-
ion instituted a strike against
any one Of the member papers,
the rest would withdraw and
withhold their products from
commerce.
The suit noted that Local 6
OF the Typographical Union
caused a strike at the plants
Of the News. Times, Journal
American and World Telegram
g. the Sun. The pressmen said
no other craft union called any
strike at the plants Of the four
papers struck by the printers.
The pressmen said that at
the time the strike Nls Oal Il
they we're working at the print
ing plants Of all the defendant
newspapers under a collective
bargaining agreement contain
ing mo Strike-no lockout"
clauses.
AS a result Of the alleged
acts OF the defendants, the su-
ing pressmen have suffered
unemployment and lost wages.
the suit claimed.