Manuscripts
Pressroom - Otis Booth
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Pressroom Communications - Otis Booth
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Materials include: memos on subjects such as "Special Communications relating to pressroom," "Status of union in pressroom,"Otis Chandler's report on his meeting with pressmen," etc. Also a "Union Coloring Book" (8-pp., 81/2" x 11'), sample caption for color-in cartoons - "This is the (union) ... by-laws - color it ominous"; other anti-union, cartoon-style materials; memo to "Management Personnel, 6/26/1963 (one day before the election) instructing management personnel to stay away from the 6th floor polling place during the election, so that nothing they do "might be construed as an unfair labor practice"; clipping from Time (mag), 5/24/1963, "Newspapers-living with the scars," an account of aftermath of 114-day newspaper strike in NYC; etc.
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Departments - Production - Pressroom - Union
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Approx. 30 items: memos and other correspondence between LAT staffers, and correspondence between LAT and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America; material related to the contract between LAT and IPPAU; materials related to Pressroom schedules; a grievance filed by a Mr. Salazar against a pressroom supervisor (Mr. Ferry).
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Pressroom 1962 Campaign
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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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Pressroom Negotiations
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 3-pp. letter (8/2/1967) addressed "Fellow Pressmen," from "Times Open Shop Committee"; 3-pp. letter (8/11/1967) from Otis Chandler to "Times Employees," reading in part, "I would like to make sure you understand the effect of this agreement [with the Pressman's Union]"; copy, 53-pp., "Proposed Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen..." 7/25/1967; 57-pp. Company counterproposal," dated 5/2/1967; letters exchanged between TM executives and legal firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; progress reports on negotiations; 1-pp. chart, 5/11/1967, "Mgmn't Services - Press Room Study - Observation Schedule; etc.
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Pressroom 1967 Campaign
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Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, form letters, flyers, originating with Times Mirror and with the Pressmen's Union. Times Mirror-produced materials urge pressmen not to "fall under the control of Local 18," while the union materials urge the pressmen to "stand with your fellow pressmen" under union representation: copies of 3-part series in Nation's Business, (11/1966 - 1/1967), "What to do when the union knocks"; related materials.
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Dispatch conveyors
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Approx. 12 items: letters, a memo, a telegram, forms, and other material related to obtaining and installing dispatch conveyors for new Times building in 1933 and 1934. Correspondence is mainly between TM and Cutler-Hammer Inc. Major items: 30" x 54" (approx.) "Second Floor Plan - Times Mirror Co.), Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect), 9/22/1933 ; bound booklet (with cover letter & Cutler-Hammer's Proposal to TM), "Cutler-Hammer Newspaper Conveyors."
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