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Chaotic Pattern. For weeks to come, critics and commentators would be arguing over the effects of the strike, rehashing its history, reaching for explanations, offering advice for the future. Some enterprising Timesman might even search through the paper's file of unprinted columns left over from the disastrous 114-day New York newspaper strike of 1962-63. There he would find the words of Associate Editor James Reston: "One day the New York newspapers will publish again, but they dare not go back to the same chaotic pattern of collective bargaining that produced the present shutdown. The present system is intolerable for the public, the unions and the publishers alike."
How right Scotty Reston was. And how wrong.