Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: LAT materials--memos, open letters, flyers--aimed at discouraging pressroom employees from supporting union representation. An LAT article (copy in folder) for 6/29/1963 was headlined "Pressmen vote against union at L.A. Times." The story read, in part, "Pressmen at (LAT) have voted 202 to 187 against the AFL-CIO International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union Local 18 as their bargaining agent....The pressmen voted for the union in an NLRB election in April, 1962, but 58 subsequent negotiation meetings failed to bring about a contract agreement...In April the pressroom employees petitioned the NLRB for a new election..."
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One copy of the entire pressroom contract: "Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO, and its subordinate union, L.A. Newspaper Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 18." (dated 8/7/1967)
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6 items. Materials include: two editions of a so-called "Times Union Bulletin" headed "UPDATE," (one undated, the other 12/5/1991), the Dec. 5 issue refers to Publisher David Laventhol as "the bald-headed race track tout from Long Island... foisted upon us two years ago," continuing to remark that he "more closely approximates Attila the Hun than Tom Johnson or Otis Chandler,"; pre-election memo to "All pressroom employees," 11/13/1991; memo, 11/27/1991, to "Management personnel"; two flyers from Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, including union registration cards to fill out and mail.
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8 items. Materials include: copy of LAT editorial, 8/14/1953, "The AFL boycott [of LAT] is not news"; 3 LAT news stories, 1953, "Unions hit jobless pay chiseling," 1957, (Norman) Chandler cites big labor threat," 1960, "Labor group pledges fight for principles"; 2-pp. report, ca. 1971, w/ "Chronological Summary of NLRB [Nat. Labor Relations Board] elections at the Los Angeles Times"; 9-pp. report, ca. 1971, "Los Angeles Times NLRB Elections"; two 1995 flyers by Justice for Janitors union (SEIU Local 399), urging the public to call either Shelby Coffey or Metro Building Maintenance , new janitorial service for LAT, to question them about "job security and justice in the workplace."
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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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6 items. Materials include: clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Citizen, 11/23/1973, "We do not patronize," followed by a list of goods and services to boycott, which includes LAT; clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Times, 11/6/1990, "Strikebound Daily News sales lagging"; copy of LAT brief, 10/27/1990, "Union seeks vote by Times press operators"; tear sheet, The Review (of Southern California Journalism), 5/1974, "The Times versus the Newspaper Guild"; flyer, (1977), Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee, headed "Stop the cuts in unemployment benefits"; clipping, LAT, 11/6/1990, "N.Y. Post did right with unions."
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