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Scope and Contents John F. O'Keefe memos on plans for outside typesetting; offer to mediate from Otto Baab of the Citizens' Committee on Industrial Relations. Front page of the Chicago Sun November 25, 1947, issue. O'Keefe correspondence with Randolph and Pilch. Report of conflict at meetings of the Chicago Typographical Union and the Chicago Federation of Labor. City News Bureau account of testimony by attorney Robert C. Bassett, representing the Hearst papers, before a...

Scope and Contents Pilch letter of March 30, 1948, withdrawing all CTU proposals pursuant to Judge Luther Swygert's order of March 27, and asking for new negotiations. O'Keefe reply of March 31, 1948, confirming the withdrawal of all proposals by both parties. Instructions issued by International Typographical Union to locals on handling the injunction, March 31, 1948. Draft of a new Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association CNPA proposal eliminating bogus typesetting, made formally on May 12, 1948. Rejection...

Scope and Contents Further correspondence and advertisements. Pilch letter of June 4, 1948, asking publishers to meet with Randolph; copy of Randolph speech over WCFL. Transcripts of meetings with Randolph, June 15 and 17, 1948, and CNPA request for a secret ballot on publisher's "final offer." Correspondence about New York commercial publishers' agreement with the union; Pilch letter of August 23, 1948, saying it is satisfactory to his union; O'Keefe reply of August 26, 1948, rejecting it. Notes on reopening...

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Minutes of meetings with Chicago Typographical Union on January 11 and 21, 1949

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Minutes of meeting with Chicago Typographical Union on February 1, 1949. Comparison of International Typographical Union wages among cities, March 1949. Photograph of Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association and Chicago Typographical Union TU negotiators taken on November 2, 1949, after the settlement