2 Washington Papers End Pacts With Printers but Will Negotiate
Date: 09 May 1974
Washington Star-News and Washington Post on May 8 terminate their labor contracts with ITU but rept they intend to continue negotiations; printers are instructed in advance by union local pres Raymond E Hall to continue work in composing rooms in event their contracts are cancelled
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Pact Vote Today
Date: 09 May 1974
700 members of Teamsters Local 211 are scheduled to vote on May 9 on contract proposal that ended their 5-wk strike against Pittsburgh Press Co that halted publication of both Press and Morning Gazette
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Akron Strike Ends
Date: 09 May 1974
Akron Beacon-Journal on May 7 resumes normal publication after 6 days, having reached agreement on new contract with members of Teamsters Local 473; newspaper published during strike with aid of supervisory personnel
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Jersey Bill on Replies To Editorials Blocked
Date: 10 May 1974
NJ State Sen on May 9 blocks legis that would have forced newspapers to print public replies to editorials; bill is sponsored by Sen Joseph A Maressa and included fine of $100 to $500 against any newspaper that refused to print replies
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Kansas City Star Strike
Date: 09 May 1974
May 8 editions of Kansas City Star with reduced amounts of news and display ad and no classified ads are printed by supervisory personnel and other employes in absence of pressmen; Web Printing Pressmen's Local 14, representing 98 pressmen who were dismissed, proposes that workers be rehired, but paper's gen mgr Frank S McKinney refuses
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MITCHELL IS CITED IN INQUIRY REPORT; Draft by Staff of- Senate Panel Links Him to a Plan That Led to Watergate
Date: 09 May 1974
Sen Watergate com in draft rept made public on May 8 rejects any natl security justification for break-in by White House plumbers unit at offices of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist
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Boston Globe Gets Award For Series on Bookmaking
Date: 10 May 1974
Sevellon Brown Memorial Award for disinterested and meritorious public service in journalism is presented to Boston Globe for '73 series on bookmaking in Boston; honorable mentions go to Hartford Courant, Boston Herald Amer, Christian Science Monitor and Daily Hampshire Gazette
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A Reporter's Notebook: On Kissinger's Shuttle; Reporter's Notebook: Life on the Kissinger Shuttle
Date: 10 May 1974
By BERNARD GWERTZMANSpecial to The New York Times
B Gwertzman log of events during typical day with news party traveling with Sec Kissinger on Middle East trip; notes comraderie between Kissinger and reporters
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Printers and City Papers Start Closed Negotiations
Date: 10 May 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
ITU Local 6 and NY Times, News and Post on May 9 begin period of intensified bargaining under news blackout proposed by Fed mediator Theodore Kheel; Kheel repts that Thomas Van Arsdale, head of Electrical Workers Union Local 3 and James O'Hara, asst business mgr of local, will also sit in on negotiations at invitation of ITU Local 6 pres Bertram Powers; O'Hara repts there is possibility that his union may join printers stoppage at News; May 10 edition of News goes to presses 1 1/2 hrs late; News delivery truck driver is slightly injured when firecracker is tossed on top of his truck 1 block from News bldg; illus of pickets
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News and Printers Resuming Talks as Paper Continues to Publish
Date: 09 May 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Fed mediator Theodore Kheel on May 8 asks ITU Local 6 and NY Times, News and Post to meet with him for resumption of contract negotiations on May 9; News, encouraged by its success in producing May 8 paper without printers, goes ahead with plans for expanded editions on May 9; most members of other unions continue to rept to work at News; Mailers Union Local 6 George McDonald repts he is not convinced there is justification for putting his members on picket line
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