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Pegler, Westbrook
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Employees - Pegler, Westbrook
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1 item: "Notice," run in LAT 9/7/1944, "Westbrook Pegler will cease writing for The Times Sept. 9. (This) is NOT the result of any disagreement between him and this newspaper....The Times wishes Mr. Pegler well."--Norman Chandler
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Pegler, Westbrook
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Approx. 12 items: a collection of letters and one Pegler column transcript. The bulk of the material deals directly with "the discontinuance of Westbrook Pegler's column in the Times..." but there are no letters, as such, to or from Pegler. All the correspondence deals with reaction to Pegler's shift to a new distributor. He had been with the Scripps - Howard syndicate, he joined King Features Syndicate in September 1944.
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Los Angeles Times Editorial Policy and Content
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Correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the editorial policy of the Los Angeles Times. Correspondents and subjects include Philip Chandler; Norman Chandler; R.W. Trueblood; L.D. Hotchkiss; William Holden; Harry Carr; Grace Kingsley; Westbrook Pegler; Miles, Marvin; Gilbert espionage; Dick Hyland; L. Frank Baum; Southern Californians Inc.; Charles Owens; Sylvia Weaver; China correspondents; Irvin S. Cobb; and John Anson Ford. File of R. W. Trueblood, L. D. Hotchkiss, and William Holden.
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Conrad, Paul
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1970
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Approx. 35 items. Materials include: memos, form letters, cover letters, etc., from the period of time leading up to the 1970 pressmen's vote at LAT. The vote was conducted on 7/9/1970. The result of the vote was decertification of the pressman's union at LAT. The news brief that ran 7/10/1970 had the headline: "Times pressmen vote to leave union, 213 to 134."
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962
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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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