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Show ay : Secretary to Take Hand Today in Pi ress Strike * KETY © New York Times ih NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Secre- tary of Labor W. Lis hv 9 Bertram A. Powers, eae | of the printers, agreeing there |f Willard had been no progress. Wirtz and the head of the Fed-| — ‘j|eral Mediation and Conciliation AS HE LEFT the meeting|} held under the auspices of the|j ally Tuesday in the three-day-| Federal Mediation and ReconService will intervene person- ‘old printers’ strike which has shut down the cty's nine major dailies. ciliation Service, Powers said, “We are further apart than we have been.” THE LACK OF progress. to- |# THE LABOR Dévaliadint resolving the - dispute a announced in Washington that ward Wirtz and William E. Simkin which has idled 20,000 em-|I will meet at 9:30 a.m. with ployes and halted the print- |}. representatives of New York : ing of 5,700, 000 daily papers, Typographical Union No. 6 and was made clear by Stephen an hour later with representatives of the Publishers’ Asso- I. Schlossberg, special assistant to the director of the ciation of New York City. Mediation Service. The closed be held service’s meetings will at the mediation office here. . A joint mediation session Monday broke up after 40 minutes with Amory H. Bradford, chairman of the publishers’ negotiating coe and Anes “THIS MEETING has been adjourned by the Mediation Service,’ he said, “and we are sending both sides home to do their homework.” He added that he had asked them | to “look at their positions re-evaluate them.” and — ee SZ New Yorkers Hung 7-y—Hungry for News _By Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Vignettes of a newspaper-less town: A disgruntled television viewer sat rushed before his set and snapped at his wife: made “How am I what’s on? We “Any On page. IP ‘woman _ At an out-of-town newspaper stand in Times Square, a,man walked up, Ue the ‘SNOW, “Gimme es a paper.” 1 a asked and man subwaj |) piationee a through ‘the for some hing ELSEW against the replied. two train EI door and scarce. ON - scroun ged the through No, not platform, a_ a waste- paper containe = looking for the : same thin 2g. said, 7 ‘“‘Let’s gon to 2. movie,” said the teen- ‘Ae vendor. | ager. 4 ;f ‘=e xz - a * 3 ea Le aw “Okeh,” playing?” men a seat. A couplé of pages of an abandoned two- cay ic newspaper.. going to find out haven’t got a TV bundled paper2 5 | said her friend, “what's “Look in the newspap—ch, that’s a right, there aren’t any.” In a Manhattan bar, “How’d our team make out?” asked the barkeep. . “—. DON'T KNOW,” replied the customer. “Hey, Joe,” (calling to a friend down the line), “did you get any scores?” — | : | “No,” said Joe, paper.” “haven’t us a! seen a |
