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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.
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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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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. 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. 50 items. Materials include: two booklets, "Know the Facts," and "Just the Facts," providing financial data designed to convince pressmen to support LAT in the election; memos, form letters, flyers, cartoon strips, etc. in support of LAT being union-free; copies of two LAT news brief, 3/18/1967, "Union chosen agent by Times pressmen," and "Pressmen at Times OK union pact."
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and news reports related to the National Labor Relations Board-sponsored election, in which the employees were asked to accept or reject unionizing. The LAT pressmen voted on 2/28, the results were released 3/2/1957. The L.A. Mirror-News story carried the headline, "Times-Mirror pressmen reject union, 247-104." A number of persuasive memos distributed to the pressmen in the weeks leading up to the vote are also in the file.
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