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Staff Objectives
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Staffing
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Notes and a staffing proposal for a History Center clerk.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Compensation
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Approx. 45 items. Materials include: copy of Among Ourselves article, 11/1928, "Looking Backward," by Claude Luce, in which he reports that as a 16-year-old, he "drew down" $4 per week: various Employee and Management Bulletins on subjects such as company (pay) rate increases, tax issues, sick days, 4 copies of "Job Evaluation Plan - Technical and Office Occupations," (T-M Co.) 1953; ditto, 1945; 15-pp. booklet (green), "Your rate of pay," (T-M Co.); LAT National Survey of Management and Supervisory Compensation, Newspaper Industry, 9/1989; 10-pp. report, "Guide and Procedures for the Administration of Executive Base Salaries - The Times-Mirror Company, August 1958; chart, ca. 1989, "Los Angeles Times Company Rate Increase vs. Consumer Price Index.
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Corporate Bulletins
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Cover letter to "All Times employees" from Otis Chandler plus booklet on "improved group insurance plan," 2/12/1965 ; letter to "Times employees and their families" from Otis Chandler on $1 million TM contribution to the profit sharing plan, 12/28/1965. Otis Chandler memo, 1/7/1966, on new secretarial assignments within his office ; 4-pp. stapled packet on Company rate increases plus a one-page chart comparing these rate increases with "cost of living" increases, 1960 - 1966, 5/1966 ; 5-pp. Management Conference Bulletin, 9/1966. Two memos stapled, one to Management, one to all Times employees, announcing "22nd consecutive Annual Company Rate Increase," 5/12/1967 ; memo from Robert Bills' Office to Blanche Saulsberry on Desk Bulletins for Suburban Offices ; bomb threats memo from Otis Chandler, 6/26/1967, stapled to 5-pp. Plant Security Manual. Otis Chandler cover memo and attached news story of 2/17/1968 on changes in the top tier of TM involving Norman Chandler, Albert Casey, Franklin Murphy and Otis Chandler ; Otis Chandler memo, 3/7/1968, on promotions and changes at LAT ; Otis Chandler memo, 5/15/1968, on the 23rd consecutive annual rate increase for LAT-TM Press employees (with chart). LAT Management Bulletin from Otis Chandler, 9/15/1969, on "the proposed merger of the Times Herald Printing Company of Dallas and Times Mirror ; Management Bulletin, 12/8/1969, from Robert D. Nelson on the promotion of James B. Grider to the position of General Manager of Times Mirror Press as of 1/1/1970.
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Music Center - Expansion
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Two items comprising seven pages pertaining to the Music Center expansion, containing a memo, letters, a press release and bound proposal.
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Company Rate Increase
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Three items comprising five pages pertaining to company rate increases, containing memos and guidelines.
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Miscellaneous (2 of 2)
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90+ items - letters, memos, reports. Subject matter includes: Audiotex gambling lines ; Audit Bureau of Circulations (provides circulation and readership information to newspapers and magazines) ; Long Range Plans Committee ; price increases and ad rate increases ; more.
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