Squeezed

The weekly Christian Century was going to press. The type was all set for its 32-page issue when a strike stopped work in the Chicago print shop where the magazine is published. Last week, Christian Century was out as a four-page Mimeographed newsletter.

Many another publication was caught in the spreading closed-shop dispute between the A.F.L. International Typographical Union and the employers. The Nation, worried by the threat of a strike in New York print shops, hurried to press eight pages short. Publishers' Auxiliary, printed in Chicago, appeared as a single sheet. In Philadelphia, other magazines felt the squeeze of job shop strikes.

Manhattan dailies, threatened by an I.T.U. strike after March 31, when contracts expire, prepared to put out Vari-typed newspapers, as strikebound Chicago papers have since Nov. 24.

This week 4,200 printers quit work in New York book, magazine and job shops, in protest against a longer work week posted by employers pending a new contract.

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