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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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. 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. Form letters from Times-Mirror Company to "...all Times-Mirror pressroom employees and their families." Several letters (over Norman Chandler's signature) were sent in the weeks prior to the 4/16/1959 election in which pressroom employees would vote for or against union representation. On 4/1/1959, a letter went out with an attached sheet titled "Here are the facts," laying out in columns the "Local Union Shop" and "Times-Mirror Co." benefits. The vote went against the union, and on 4/24/1959 another letter was sent thanking the voters for the "strong endorsement of our policies and practices."
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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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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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6 items. Materials include: two editions of a so-called "Times Union Bulletin" headed "UPDATE," (one undated, the other 12/5/1991), the Dec. 5 issue refers to Publisher David Laventhol as "the bald-headed race track tout from Long Island... foisted upon us two years ago," continuing to remark that he "more closely approximates Attila the Hun than Tom Johnson or Otis Chandler,"; pre-election memo to "All pressroom employees," 11/13/1991; memo, 11/27/1991, to "Management personnel"; two flyers from Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, including union registration cards to fill out and mail.
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8 items. Materials include: 2-pp. memo, undated, "Kill the traveler's card argument"; 4-pp. memo, undated, "Campaign issues - union side"; 2-pp., "1963 Pressroom decertification election campaign"; two "draft" versions of 1/16/1967 memo to Times Stereotypers"; letter (with two attached flyers) from Los Angeles Stereotypers Union, No. 58, 3/21/1967, addressed "Dear Fellow Craftsmen," congratulating them "on winning their certification election," and with an "authorization for representation" card.
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