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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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Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.
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Approx. 25 items: correspondence with pressroom managers at The Lincoln Star (NE), Miami Herald, and the Trade Commissioner of New Zealand related to pressroom machinery; memos on pressroom practices, pressroom crew assignments, 59-pp. copy, top sheet headed "Index," with "Otis Booth" written in at top, Agreement between Times Mirror Co., and International Printing Pressmen...etc.; etc. Several pieces of correspondence in the time frame center on the characteristics of the Cutler-Hammer ink-mist suppression system for presses.
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6 items: 33-pp. report, "Pressroom policies & practices (preface)," draft, 8/1/1983; 25-pp. report, "Pressroom practices and policies (first draft) 8/28/1985; segments of various reports, loose.
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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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35-plus items. (most items are bound or stapled together in sizable stacks) Materials include: large stapled packet of memos and reports, dated 11/1962. Subject given as "Economic information - pressroom negotiations" - incl. many charts showing increased annual costs to LAT of adhering to union guidelines; material related to strike against The Oregonian and Oregon Journal in early 1960s; "Proposed Otis Chandler Remarks" to pressmen in lead-up to vote on unionization, 1962; examples of memos, letters and other materials geared to sway pressmen away from union influences. Seven letters comprising 23 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include Summer Camp fund, Ronald Reagan, Editorial policy on request for sponsors for immigration and missing persons.
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