51�Թ�

The Trib, which used to pay its 460 printers about $45,000 a week, now pays its 161 VariType operators only $10,000 a week.

Under the settlement, the VariType machines will be wheeled into the back room, and Chicago's newspapers will again use linotype, as soon as possible�one to three weeks.

Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators.

This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck.

To play safe, the papers kept their VariType crews working.