Sri Lanka's Lively Press Is Curbed by Government; Denunciation by Publisher Economic Troubles
Date: 08 May 1974
By BERNARD WEINRAUBSpecial to The New York Times
Sri Lanka Prime Min Sirimavo Bandaranaike has closed country's last ind newspaper chain, Sun Group, on ground that newspapers were 'spreading their invented or deliberately distorted untruths and half-truths, which they mistake for journalistic enterprise'; Govt's emergency move follows take-over of Sri Lanka's most influential and powerful publishers, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon; 3d largest publishers, Times Group, has also turned fervently pro-Govt; Sun Group publisher Sepana Gunasena charges Govt does not want Opposition to get any publicity; Bandaranaike has been upset by increasing publicity given to her opponent Junius Richard Jayawardene, leader of United Natl party (M)
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Washington Post Is Delayed 2 Hours After an Ultimatum; Settlement in Pittsburgh
Date: 07 May 1974
Production of May 6 editions of Washington Post is delayed more than 2 hrs after mgt was reptd to have given printers 36-hr ultimatum to stop alleged production slowdown; newspaper repts that Washington Publishers Assn is sending ITU Local 101 pres Raymond E Hall telegram informing him that 'escape clause' in their expired contract will be triggered at midnight on May 7 if 16-day slowdown is not terminated; printers repr George Ludlow charges that newspaper is alleging existence of slowdown in order to justify elimination of printers' jobs
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Rodino Unit to Hear Some Nixon Tapes as Hearings Open This Week
Date: 08 May 1974
By JAMES M. NAUGHTONSpecial to The New York Times
CBS spokesman announces on May 7 that 3 CBS, NBC and ABC will rotate live coverage of House Judiciary Com's impeachment hearings when they enter public phase, expected to begin may 21 with ABC televising 1st segment; Public Broadcasting Service plans coverage of open impeachment hearings, but officials of Public TV Network say that decision has not yet been made whether telecasts will be live or videotaped for later prime-time airing
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British Engineers' Strike Tests Wilson And Threatens to Cripple Production; Effect of 3-Day Week Union's Funds Seized
Date: 08 May 1974
By TERRY ROBARDSSpecial to The New York Times
Amalgamated Engineering Workers Union calls strike that involves 1.2-million workers, threatening to shut down major part of Brit indus just as nation's econ was recovering from 3-day workweek; strike will test Prime Min Wilson's ability to maintain peaceful relations with labor movement and to keep econ on even keel (M)
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THE NEWS ORDERS ITS PRINTERS OUT IN LABOR DISPUTE; Powers Breaks a Printing Plate Produced by New Automation Equipment
Date: 07 May 1974
NY Daily News on May 7 orders printers to leave bldg in dispute over use of automated typsetting processes after publication of paper had been delayed for several hrs; ITU Local 6 pres Bertram Powers crumples page of magnesium engraving plate and throws it to floor after News mgt officials discharge 3 printers for refusing to place plate into page form to be further processed for printing; Powers and printers are taken from bldg with police present; Powers instructs printers to picket in front of bldg; News spokesman repts that production of May 7 edition is proceeding with automated presses; Local vp David W Crockett tells printers at NY Times that there will be some action taken at paper but not immediately; News pres and publisher W H James says in memo to staff that paper had begun taking steps to use automated typesetting processes with great reluctance realizing that action might precipitate countermove by ITU Local 6; notes that composing room will be open for printers to perform their normal work at regular speed; TNG issues statement saying that exec com had voted not to ask members of guild to support possible strike or lockout action by printers; engravers reserve decision; News repts that paper has lost more than 700 pages of ad involving over $2-million in revenue as result of slowdown; summary of issues (L)
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TIMES HEADS LIST IN PUBLISHER POLL
Date: 07 May 1974
Publishers responding to survey by Edward L Bernays have placed NY Times at top of list of newspapers that best meet journalistic standards of late Thomas Gibson, Adolph S Ochs and Joseph Pulitzer
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Mood Is Peaceful as The News Automates; But Tangled Conflict Leaves Some With Mixed Feelings Normal Routine Mixed Feelings Evident
Date: 08 May 1974
By ALLAN M. SIEGAL
NY Daily News repts all but 10% of its staff, outside of union printers, showed up for work on May 7; union-exempt secs run automated typesetting machines during composing-room shutdown; chief copy editor Mel Pine and news editor Joe Kovach rept work continues much the same as before printers' walkout; drawing of automated typesetting process
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NEWS PUBLISHING WITHOUT PRINTERS; Paper Turns to Automated Methods as Union Pickets Shun Invitation to Work The News Publishing Without Printers; Union Pickets Shun Invitation to Work
Date: 08 May 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
members of ITU Local 6 on May 7 picket NY Daily News bldg and paper begins to use automated typesetting processes to set type for May 8 paper; 1st edition rolls off presses 3 1/2 hrs later than usual, reptdly because of problems with new equipment and worker adjustments to its use; local pres Bertram Powers accuses News of locking out 1,000 printers after early-morning confrontation in composing room when printers refused to handle type set by automated equipment; News repts its composing room will remain open for printers to return to work; printers' hopes for backing from their parent ITU receive setback when ITU reprs Raymond Brown and Ralph Pancallo issue statment saying that strike had not been authorized by parent union and that 'any so-called lockout' will not be recognized as long as doors of News composing room remain open; minor confrontation occurs between pickets and news deliverymen; illus of Powers and of pickets
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How System Would Work At The News; One Line at a Time
Date: 07 May 1974
new automated typesetting process currently being employed at NY Daily News described; system permits typist to tap out letters and words of article one at a time, continuously, without having to stop to think about ends of lines; machinery is guided by computer memory; computerized 'hyphenation and justification' of this kind are barred in printers' union contract with NY Times, News and Post, which has now expired
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Publication of News Is Delayed As Paper Prepares to Automate; News Publication Delayed as Automation Is Prepared
Date: 07 May 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
text of statment issued by NY Daily News pres and publisher W H James on paper's decision to use automated typesetting techniques
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