Privilege Meets Its Reckoning in ‘Aftermath’
By ELYSA GARDNER
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Bertram A. “Bert” Powers, 84, the president of the old typographers union in New York who led his guild through a grinding 114-day strike in 1962–63 over the transition to automated typesetting, died Saturday in Washington. He had pneumonia.
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|Bertram A. “Bert” Powers, 84, the president of the old typographers union in New York who led his guild through a grinding 114-day strike in 1962–63 over the transition to automated typesetting, died Saturday in Washington. He had pneumonia.
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