NEW YORK (AP) — Bertram A. Powers, the former head of New York's newspaper printers' union who led a 16-week strike in the 1960s that paralyzed the city's dailies, has died. He was 84.

Powers died of pneumonia Saturday in Washington, D.C., said his son Brian A. Powers.

Bertram Powers led New York's Local 6 of the International Typographical Union for 29 years until his retirement in the mid-1990s.

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In December 1962, he called the union's first strike in 88 years against New York's eight daily newspapers over demands for higher wages and a contract set to expire at all the papers at the same time.

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