Manuscripts

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. II

Description: 2 items: cover letter for Press Room Manning Study, Vol. I I [2] from C.M. Brassell to Otis Booth, 7/10/1967; 180-pp. report, "Volume I I [2] - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times main press room, black and white presses."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1967
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. I

Manuscripts

2 items: 25-pp. report, clipped, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements, Los Angeles Times main press room - black and white presses," 6/28/1967; 15-pp. report, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times color press," 7/11/1967.

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Departments - Production - Pressroom

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.

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Pressroom Negotiations

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 3-pp. letter (8/2/1967) addressed "Fellow Pressmen," from "Times Open Shop Committee"; 3-pp. letter (8/11/1967) from Otis Chandler to "Times Employees," reading in part, "I would like to make sure you understand the effect of this agreement [with the Pressman's Union]"; copy, 53-pp., "Proposed Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen..." 7/25/1967; 57-pp. Company counterproposal," dated 5/2/1967; letters exchanged between TM executives and legal firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; progress reports on negotiations; 1-pp. chart, 5/11/1967, "Mgmn't Services - Press Room Study - Observation Schedule; etc.

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Bound reports

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 8-plus pp. report, "Guide and procedures for the administration of executive base salaries - The Times-Mirror Company," (8/1958) - several shorter reports had been left inside the same folder; multi-page report, with inserts, "Production Changes, 1961," - several shorter reports had been left inside the same folder; approx. 70-pp. report, "Volume II - Determination of manning requirements, Los Angeles Times Color Press," 7/18/1967, one memo, 7/19/1967, about this report was filed inside the folder.

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Departments - Production - Composing

Manuscripts

7 items: 2 brief, handwritten notes on slips of paper; 2 copies of single sheet headed "Stars & Daggers," explaining the meanings of icons used as designators for various LAT editions--a second copy has some notations; 20-pp.report titled "A multiprogrammed teleprocessing system for computer typesetting," with several attached flowcharts, lists and tables (ca. 1967); 2-pp. copied pages, headed "Reasons for a new composing room," the date 5/26/1945 and the typed name (?) "al tennyson" are at the bottom; single sheet with both typed and handwritten material, 12/7/1983, headed "Press --- C --- West Line."

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Departments - Production - Production - Personnel Record

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: personnel records for various divisions of Production, such as Engraving, Pressroom, Production Office, Stereotype, Composing Room, Mailroom, etc. giving quarterly personnel counts during 1967.

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