Thursday, April 11, 1968 Mounting Tension Marks' Detroit Paper Shutdown) THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five THrIHGNDAL aeFv Kennedy's Campaign Machine Moves into 'Indianer' Primary Interested Sophomores DETROIT (P) - The Detroit * News used to advertise: "What in the world is going on? If you read The News you know." If that be true, Dgtroiters haven't known since last Nov. 15. And The Detroit Free Press, which boasted of being "On Guard for Over a Century," hasn't been on guard anywhere since last Nov. 17. For 147 days - almost five months - Detroit's 1.6 million inhabitants have had to depend upon televisionand radio and a scant'supply of newspapers from elsewhere to learn what is going * on. Sympathy' Strikes A Teamsters Union strike shut the evening News at midnight Nov. 15. Two days later the morning Free Press shut down under a mutual agreement that a strike against one newspaper is a strike against both. Teamsters and the publishers reached agreement last month on a package. increasing wages and fringe benefits by $30 a week over the next three years. The straight time wage before the strike was $150 a week. While teamsters and publishe's dickered, contracts of some 13 other unions with which the papers deal expired, and at least four of them formally declared strikes. As yet agreement has been reached with none of these. 'Not Good Enough' Norman Park, chairman of the Council of Newspaper Unions, termed the Teamsters' settlement "not good, enough" to satisfy other members of the council. Park insisted' the newspapers bargain with the council on econ- 4 omic issues and individually with the various unions on nonecon- omic issues. The publishers reject- ed this on the grounds Park did not have advance authority to commit individual member unions to whatever' agreement w a s reached. Both the publishers and the unions have kept their differences hidden from the public, except to say they involve both economic and noneconomic issues. Toledo, New York, Chicago and some other newspapers have in- creased shipments to Detroit news stands, but these usually are grabbed up quickly. All television and radio stations havp increased news coverage and w ,- nrded time devoted to news. Suburban Papej . Suburbanrnewspapersnh a y e benefitted from advertising fun- neled to them by Detroit mer- chants, but they have not moved into the Detroit subscriber mar- ket. One explained suburban news- papers hope to pick up former News and Free Press subscribers in their circulation areas, but added "we don't cover Detroit, and how would we get distribu- tion there without the Team- sters?" The Detroit newspaper shut- down now has exceeded that which kept New York's now de- funct World Journal Tribune from rolling for 140 days in 1966. That one lasted 140 days, com- pared with a city-wide New York shutdown that spanned 114 days in 1962-63. A Toledo, Ohio, strike kept that city's morning and evening new- papers off the street 154 days, beginning Oct. 4, 1966, although settlement came at the end of 149 days. Feinsinger Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh announced March 23 he was bringing in Prof. Nathan P. Fein- singer, a,. nationally recognized expert on labor mediation and arbitration, to assist in attempt- ing to settle the strikes. Cavanagh since has reported .some progress on non-economic issues, but no major economic movement. When racial disturbances in the wake of the assassination of Dr.. King last Thursday resulted in a state of emergency being declared, Cavanagh proposed a truce and a resumption of publication "dur- ing this emergency," adding that this should not hamper bargain- ing and mediation when the emergency ended. COLUMBUS, Ind. (R) - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy brought his presidential campaign - and his Massachusetts accent - into In- diana yesterday as he sought a quick, decisive victory over Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy in the state's crucial May 7 primary. "Indiana is the key primary," he told crowds in Fort Wayne and at a courthouse in this cen- tral Indiana town. Indiana may very well decide In obvious reference to Brani- who's going to be the Democratic gin's candidacy, Kennedy told the nominee-and very likely the next citizens of Columbus, "I would not President of the United States." like to see Indiana waste its votes. Kennedy's sharp Massachusetts Make yours count." inflection brought giggles from K the 2,000 townspeople clustered Indiana showed evidence of the before the Bartholomew County change the chaotic events of thej courthouse in Columbus. Twice past two weeks may bring to his within seconds he pronounced the pa gn name of the state "Indianer." capaign. And a well-dressed woman He repeated none of his earlier carne over to a member of the criticism of President Johnson - Kennedy party after his address who has withdrawn from the pres- and said in some irritation: "If idential sweepstakes. And he did you could get him to say 'Indiana' not attack, as he has in the past,! instead of 'Indianer' he could get the administration's Vietnam war a lot more votes." policy. The New York Democrat clash- He did repeat his earlier in- es head on for the first time with sistence that the South Viet- McCarthy in the Indiana contest namese should bear the main bur- for 63 delegates to the Democratic den of the war. And he stressed national convention. Gov. Roger his standard campaign theme - D. Branigin is entered as a more jobs, less welfare, more local favorite son candidate. control of government. ORGANIZATION NOTICES .:.5l . ... 4:t}::: Fa..":i:.r,..;. v vrs"} -::": 3: '". 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