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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 27, 1963
Photoengravers Agree to Terms
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Publishers and striking photoengravers came to terms early today, all but ending a newspaper shutdown of almost three-and-one-half-months in the nation's largest city.
The presses were read to roll, and it was virtually certain that they would be turning out papers tonight. The papers had their staffs on telephone alert, and 5.7 million readers looked forward to regaining their prime source of information.
Jubilation prevailed at city hall early today as a weary but happy Mayor Robert F. Wagner announced the peace pact.
One detail remained: ratification of the agreement by the 320 members of the photoengravers union. But Frank McGowan, president of photoengravers Local 1, scheduled a ratification meeting for 3 p.m. CST today, and predicted that his men would vote yes within an hour.
WALTER N. THAYER, president of the Herald Tribune, said that if this were done his publication would be on the streets tonight with the Thursday morning edition. The other idled morning papers—the Times, Mirror and News—have indicated they could publish within a few hours after pickets were withdrawn.
The idle afternoon papers—the Journal American, World Telegram & Sun, Long Island Star Journal and Long Island Press—should have no problems in publishing tomorrow afternoon.
The settlement accepted by negotiators for the photoengravers falls within the $12.63 package accepted by the printers, who had initiated the strike on Dec. 8. This package provided a pattern for settlement with all the unions involved.
NEGOTIATIONS with the photo-engravers had floundered on the question of a work week reduction from 36 and 1/4 hours to 35 hours.
As accepted, the pact will give the union this reduction on the "lobster," or overnight shift only, in the second year of the contract.
They also obtained three days of paid personal leave per year, effective in the second year of the pact, plus a fourth week of paid vacation after one year's service. The settlement represented some "modifications," proposed by the union and accepted by the publishers, from a settlement offer advanced by Wagner two days ago.
THERE WAS NOTHING but praise for Wagner, who had entered the dispute when all parties conceded the breakdown of collective bargaining.
Estes Jury Undecided; VerdictExpectedToday
EL PASO, Tex. — (UPI)— The jury in the Billie Sol Estes multi-million-dollar mail fraud trial deliberated nearly 10 hours yesterday then retired last night without reaching a verdict.
They were unaware that Estes' chief defense witness had been arrested in connection with a swindle in the fertilizer tycoon's hometown, Pecos, Tex.
E. L. (Curly) Hartman, former pilot for Estes, was charged with passing worthless $10 and $20 checks. The charges were not connected to Estes.
The jury resumes deliberation today and a verdict was expected to be handed down.
The case against Estes involved 12 counts of mail fraud, one count of interstate transportation of fraudulent documents, and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. Conviction on all counts could lead to a maximum sentence of 75 years.
The charges concerned some $3 million worth of deals Estes made with farmers and finance companies for liquid fertilizer tanks, most of which did not exist.
State Court sentenced Estes to eight years for swindling in connection with a fertilizer tank mortgage deal with Pecos farmer R. J. Wilson. The sentence has been appealed.
The government contended Estes told farmers his credit was extended and he needed more fertilizer tanks. He asked the farmers to buy the tanks for a bonus and then sign mortgages on the tanks.
Estes allegedly leased the tanks and discounted the mortgages to 12 finance companies, and used the cash to expand his farm empire.
Lease payments to the farmers supposedly covered the mortgages.
The only trouble, the government said, was that there were no tanks.
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