Daily News Is Laying Off 2,500 in Delivery Strike; NEWS LAYING OFF 2,500 IN STRIKE
Date: 05 March 1975
NY Daily News on Mar 4 announces it will suspend publication on March 5 and begin laying off more than 1/2 its 5,000 employes as drivers and deliverers continue wildcat strike that has halted paper's operations for last 3 days; NYS Sup Ct Justice Hyman Korn finds Deliverers Union guilty of contempt of ct and fines union $100,000; deliverers' unit chmn Carmine Batista repts News officials refused to meet with union leaders; union pres Carl Levy says union does not have funds to pay fine; Korn says evidence fails to sustain allegation of News that Levy was personnally guilty of contempt; News pres W H James says dept heads are sending furlough notices to more than 2,500 employes who have no necessary work to perform while strike continues; News controller Robert C Schneider testifies that paper suffered net loss of $241,000 on Mar 3; says net loss on Mar 4 was $264,000; Korn is critical of failure to use arbitration machinery to resolve dispute; text of News's furlough notice to employes (M)
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Ehrlichman Perjury Charge In Ellsberg Case Dismissed
Date: 04 March 1975
Superior Ct Judge Gordon Ringer on Mar 3 dismisses perjury charge alleging that John D Ehrlichman lied to Los Angeles County grand jury about his involvement in break-in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding; approves recommendation to dismiss case; prosecutor Stephen Trott calls further prosecution of Ehrlichman 'act of excess' (S)
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. . . Overtime Strike
Date: 05 March 1975
ed condemns strike called by NY News deliverers; says that strike over issue of overtime while thousands of others are unemployed is unjustified
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Colby Oral Fill-In to Ford On Assassination Reported; A Colby Oral Fill-In to Ford Is Reported
Date: 05 March 1975
CIA Dir William E Colby written rept to Pres Ford allegedly contained widespread and almost routine surveillance of Cuban refugees in Miami (S)
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Bitterness Erupts Over News Layoffs
Date: 05 March 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
NY Daily News employes, who have been furloughed as result of wildcat strike called by deliverers, comment on their plight; drivers' union chapel chmn Carmine Batista says he has been attempting to get drivers back to work (M)
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Daily News Is Shut 2d Day by Strike; Layoffs Planned; Daily News Shut for 2d Day by Deliverers' Strike
Date: 04 March 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NY News on Mar 3 shuts down operations for 2d day after newspaper deliverers, protesting new work schedules, defy preliminary injunction and refuse to rept to work; announces it will lay off unspecific number of its nonstriking employes; deliverers, holding brief meeting with their leaders, decide not to return to work despite request by Carl Levy, union pres; News atty John D Canoni says that counsel for paper will appear in ct to make motion to punish union for contempt of '74 order and of temporary restrianing order signed on Mar 1 and preliminary injunction ordered on Mar 3; News had made prepararions to publish Mar 4 editions after Justice Hyman Korn signed preliminary injunction enjoining union from continuing work stoppage; News pres and publisher W H James says that heavy revenue losses because of strike are forcing layoffs; News officials rept because of strike paper lost nearly 45,000 lines of ad and all-over loss in revenue had been $372,000; Korn directed deliverers to return to work pending ruling by arbitrator Herbert L Habor (M)
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Chicago Tribune Is Winner Of Editorial Writing Award
Date: 04 March 1975
William Allen White editorial excellence award progam at Inland Daily Press Assn meeting, selects Chicago Tribune as '75 sweepstakes winner; other winners are Carbondale Southern Illinoisan, Logan (Utah) Herald Journal and Sheridan (Wyo) Press (S)
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HIGH COURT UPSETS INFORMATION CURB; Rape Case Ruling Forbids Penalty for Disseminating Accurate Information INFORMATION CURB BARRED BY COURT
Date: 04 March 1975
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Sup Ct on March 3 rules 8 to 1 that newspapers and radio and TV stations cannot be subjected to either criminal prosecution or civil damage suits for disseminating accurate information that is available from public law enforcement records; strikes down Ga law that makes it misdemeanor to print or broadcast name of rape victim; case represents 1st time that Ct was asked to rule that personal right to privacy could outweigh press freedom guarantees of 1st Amendment when resulting news rept was undisputedly true; Ct concludes that 'once true information is disclosed in public court documents open to public inspection, the press cannot be sanctioned for publishing it'; Assoc Justice Byron R White, who wrote majority opinion, appears to stop short of providing protection for accurate press accounts of inaccurate public records; forbids state interference with publication of 'truthful information contained in court records'; lone dissenter is Assoc Justice Rehnquist; actual trial of damage suit by Martin Cohn, father of rape victim Cynthia L Cohn against WSB-TV, Atlanta, has not yet been held; Justice White says he is confining majority opinion to 'narrower interface between press and privacy' rather than broader question whether truthful publications may ever be subjected to criminal or civil liability; Assoc Justice William O Douglas, in concuring statement, maintains that ruling should have been absolute, denying all govt power to interfere with publication of news (M)
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Rockland to Fight TV Licenses Here Over Local News
Date: 05 March 1975
Rockland County Legis votes to challenge license renewals of NYC's 6 local TV stations on charges that they do not provide adequate news coverage of county (S)
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