Manuscripts

Stereotype NLRB Election

Description: Approx. 40 items. Materials include: form letters to stereotype employees; memos on new equipment for the task; manning for packing mats; workloads, work issues including overtime; 3-pp. "Remarks to Stereotypers" (by "O / C" - Otis Chandler); memos from immediately before and after the 4/6/1961 vote by stereotypers; photographs of stereotyping equipment at The Oregonian (Portland); 1-pp. "Stereotype Seniority as of 11-1-'60"; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1960-1963
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Stereotype campaign 1967

Manuscripts

8 items. Materials include: 2-pp. memo, undated, "Kill the traveler's card argument"; 4-pp. memo, undated, "Campaign issues - union side"; 2-pp., "1963 Pressroom decertification election campaign"; two "draft" versions of 1/16/1967 memo to Times Stereotypers"; letter (with two attached flyers) from Los Angeles Stereotypers Union, No. 58, 3/21/1967, addressed "Dear Fellow Craftsmen," congratulating them "on winning their certification election," and with an "authorization for representation" card.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961

Manuscripts

Approx. 18 items. Materials include: LAT memos and form letters to staffers in the stereotype department who would be voting on unionization on 4/6/1961. A copy of LAT story of 4/8/1961, "Times stereotypers again reject union." Other materials.

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Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan

Manuscripts

3 items, stapled: 5/28/1965 memo to All Stereotype Employees from Charles Chase on Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan; a sheet headed "Stereotype Bonus Plan (incl. "Purpose of Plan," and "Details of the Plan"; 6/1/1965 memo from Chase to Otis Booth and Robert Flannes, on Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan.

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Stereotype Department - General Info

Manuscripts

1 item: report, approx. 40-pp., "General Information for Los Angeles Times Stereotype Department - 1951.Approx. 10 items: stack of bios for Transportation personnel ; several Among Ourselves articles on LAT Transportation, 1950s thru 1970s ; 3-pp. handwritten item, "Transportation Memories," received by LAT in 1982, written by John R. Shepherd, who started with LAT in 1926 ; several pieces of correspondence between LAT Archivist Carolyn Strickler and Robert McVay, who was working on an article about Pacific Electric's "Big Red Cars" (including the fact that LAT was, in part, delivered to other southern California cities via PE's trains ; other LAT materials related to Transportation.

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Production - Stereotype - Assistant Foreman (329)

Manuscripts

Approx. 9 items: descriptions, evaluation, questionnaire, etc. on the position of Assistant Foreman, Stereotype.

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