printers' union chief bertram powers.se of computerized typesetting and film, a complete revolution in composury. we understood we'd have to handle it and work with them. we wanted to. we got into a dispute with the publishers about the introduction and about job protection. there never was a refusal to automate, but there was an inability to agree on how to handle the impact that would result from automation. but a.h. raskin, the new york times' labor reporter, saw it differently. the new york newspapers didn't join the automation trend because the unions wouldn't let them. and in 1965, after many efforts to break through, the publishers, for reasons that remain incomprehensible, gave bert powers of big 6, the typographical union here in new york, an absolute veto power, which he wanted. so that he then had the whip over automation in the composing. you could not move toward improved technology except with a green light from the union. this new contract aimed at preserving jobs by making automation possible, but difficul