Retired Beacon Journal composing room employee Leo V. Osmar wrote down some of his recollections of the composing room in the 1960s and a special agreement between Knight Ridder and individual employes in addition to the International Typographic Union contract.
"There was an additional agreement printed and inserted in our individual copies of said contract but was in no way connected to or part of the contract, " Osmar writes. " It was not reviewed by International Typographical Union in Colorado Springs beforehand, but they overwhelmingly approved it after the fact. It was not a contract between the Beacon Journal Publishing Company and the Akron Typographical Union #182. It was an agreement between the Knight Ridder Publishing Company and each individual printer working in the Composing Room of the Akron Beacon Journal."
"Each printer was given life tenure at the Beacon Journal regardless of any downswing in business, fire, flood or Act of God. If I find my copy I will insert it.'
Osmar's recollections are on the web site. It is of no value now, but does anyone have a copy of that additional agreement?
interesting reading indeed! we should hope that other "old timers" will recall their days and memories of the good old beacon family and send them to harry. once we're gone those memories are gone, so let's share with the rest of the crowd.
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