Boston Papers Shut

Six Boston daily newspapers were forced to shut down last night for the second time in 27 months, after the International Typographical Union ordered a strike against the newspapers.

The strike order, effective immediately, came when the printers rejected, by a vote of 561-511, the publishers' proposal to arbitrate their offer of the same hourly wage increase accepted by ten other newspaper unions. Earlier, an all-day conference in Governor Furcolo's office failed to avert the strike.