The Nation - News from April 15, 1985
A federal mediator helped settle a contract dispute that had halted delivery of the Philadelphia Inquirer and also threatened publication of the Philadelphia Daily News, a spokesman for the newspapers said. Porters, janitors and elevator operators had walked off their jobs and set up picket lines outside the newspapers’ offices. Members of Teamsters Local 628, who had been working almost a year without a contract, voted 72 to 1 to accept the agreement.
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