He said the paper's management had agreed to prepare a new offer for the pressmen.

"We'll have the pressmen down like flies when they understand it.

"I help the pressmen operate the printing press," he said.

Most pressmen work six days a week, which invariably includes overtime.

The edition will begin next month after an agreement is reached with a final union, the pressmen, the paper said.

There were quite simply no other racing Pressmen here.

If not enough pressmen take the buyouts, members would then be laid off.

"Wait a second," say some pressmen, when confronted with such facts.

"That is the way it ought to work, and we want to extend the same courtesy to the pressmen."

At the same time, union leaders told striking pressmen, drivers and other production workers to report to work last night, too.

There is an added factor in the negotiations with the drivers and the pressmen.

Then I was surrounded by pressmen wanting to know who, in his right mind, would pay that much money for a toy.

They don't realize how important you pressmen are to our newspaper."

Mr. Maxwell is seeking to cut about half of the 400 pressmen.

Friday's technical ability made him very popular among Reading supporters and pressmen alike.

The News also wanted to cut the wages of most of the pressmen who would remain by 45 percent.

As to the pressmen, their faces were whiter than the sheets which lay before them.

By this time, the newspaper was shut down by an 88-day strike of the pressmen.

The Times is currently negotiating agreements with the pressmen and four smaller unions.

The Pressmen could hardly keep their eyes on their shorthand.

The pressmen proposed a six-year contract that would have included a 25 percent cut in labor costs.

The proposal would reduce the number of pressmen at The News to about 200 from 400, the union leaders said.

In 1978, a strike by pressmen (printers' union) began and lasted eight months.

Then, two pressmen would take a number of impressions on a roller-movement hand press, using common printing paper.

But only one union, the pressmen, has ratified its contract. '