New Daily, Old Complaint

Not since a prolonged strike of the New York Newspaper Guild drove the Brooklyn Eagle out of business nine months ago, have almost 3,000,000 borough-proud Brooklynites had a daily newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ the union directly instead.

In the crisis, printers and reporters drove their own cars to the plant, loaded up with papers and carried them to dropoff points around Brooklyn. But there the bundles languished on the sidewalks; union members working for distributors would not handle them. Co-Publishers Albert and Sidney Klass, the brothers who started their paper as a weekly 18 years ago, asked for an injunction against the boycott so they could get on with their plan of boosting the Daily's circulation from 25,000 to an initial borough-wide 100,000.

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