The World - News from Jan. 27, 1986

Press magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Britain’s largest national newspaper group, published the Sunday Times of London and the News of the World at new, computerized plants in east London and Glasgow despite a strike by two major unions. Murdoch thus became the first of Britain’s major national publishers to put out a newspaper with computerized typesetting and without the two major production unions, the National Graphical Assn. and the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades. The unions called out their nearly 6,000 members but were unable to halt distribution of the newspapers.