Manuscripts
Departments - Employee Relations - Quarter Century Club
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Departments - Employee Relations - Affirmative Action
Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items. LAT Management Bulletins from Otis Chandler (1973), and Tom Johnson (1987); 4-pp. "Affirmative Action Plan" (1973); copy of "Newspeak" column, L.A. Weekly, 8/1987, alleging that LAT was "male-dominated" and that the female staffers were unhappy; copy of editorial, 2/3/1977, L.A. Sentinel, "A time to fight," implying that LAT (unnamed) had too few black staffers and management people; 3-pp. report, "Affirmative Action Activities"; etc.
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Employees - Tennyson, Alfred
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.
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Departments - Production - Composing Room Museum
Manuscripts
3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961
Manuscripts
Approx. 18 items. Materials include: LAT memos and form letters to staffers in the stereotype department who would be voting on unionization on 4/6/1961. A copy of LAT story of 4/8/1961, "Times stereotypers again reject union." Other materials.
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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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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Clubs and Organizations
Manuscripts
9 items: 3 programs for LAT Bowling League banquets, 17th (1944), 26th (1953) and 27th (1954); LAT tear sheet, 5/6/1934, "Times old timers," with group photo and name list of long-time employees; "1958 Times-Mirror Softball League Circulation Statistics"; description of three 1958 TM Softball League Playoff games; one Management Bulletin, 10/30/1989.
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