Manuscripts

Subjects - Labor - Local 10N

Description: Approx. 45 items: memos, reports, lists and other materials related to LAT "anti" efforts and Local 10N. Some material deals with LAT salaries comparative to union scale ; 12-pp. report from LAT Archivist Craig St. Clair to Jim Boswell, 10/24/1990, "(LAT-) Organized Labor History" ; material produced by Newspaper Pressmen's Local 10-N or other union entities ; material produced by LAT to counter union efforts ; internal LAT correspondence related to pro or anti union moves.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Subjects - Labor unions

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: memos, reports, lists and other materials related to union organizing attempts at LAT - 3-pp. "Company statement of position, Dick Schlosberg - Video" ; 5-pp. "Progress report - 6/21/1989, Pressrooms Project" ; 4-pp. "Program to 'Deunionize' the culture" ; 4-pp. "Outline of CRI Issues.". Some material deals with LAT salaries comparative to union scale.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1970

Manuscripts

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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Labor

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: stapled, multi-page reprint from LAT headed, "Lest we forget...The Forty-year war for a Free City," originally published during the month of 10/1929 ; article tear sheet, The American West, 3/1970, "The case of the very American militants" ; approx. 15-pp., interview of Seth Brown (labor rep.) by Dr. Corrine Gilb, material headed "The Los Angeles Times and the I.T.U. Local 174 (typographical union), 5/1957; cover and articles copied from The Californians, 7/1984, several articles on labor agitation in L.A. area, especially San Pedro in 1920s; 60-pp. copied from a book, Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo in 1932.

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Pressroom 1967 Campaign

Manuscripts

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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Labor - Mexican Farm Labor

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT editorials and news articles--1942 - 1970--on Mexican farm workers, labor leader Cesar Chavez, union tactics, union-business relations, boycotts, strikes, etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Labor

Manuscripts

6 items. Materials include: clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Citizen, 11/23/1973, "We do not patronize," followed by a list of goods and services to boycott, which includes LAT; clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Times, 11/6/1990, "Strikebound Daily News sales lagging"; copy of LAT brief, 10/27/1990, "Union seeks vote by Times press operators"; tear sheet, The Review (of Southern California Journalism), 5/1974, "The Times versus the Newspaper Guild"; flyer, (1977), Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee, headed "Stop the cuts in unemployment benefits"; clipping, LAT, 11/6/1990, "N.Y. Post did right with unions."

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Subjects - Labor - Local 10N

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