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...papers' employees are far from convinced. Although Justice Department approval of the merger seems assured, the unions are threatening to strike. According to the publishers' calculations, the merger will throw some 2,000 people out of work: 901 Newspaper Guilds-men, 450 printers, 421 drivers, 77 mailers, 53 photoengravers and 41 stereo-typists. The Guild's Tom Murphy and the printers' Bert Powers have made their disapproval loud and clear. For public consumption at least, Guildsman Murphy demanded as the price of merger that the publishers keep their entire present staffs on salary for at least...
Drawbacks of Seniority. Reporters' bylines will offer few surprises. Guild seniority rules will force the World Journal to hang on to far too many tired oldtimers while cutting loose a batch of promising youngsters. The familiar old crowd will supply what Conniff calls "recognition value"-enough, it is hoped, to attract an initial circulation that approaches...
...Justice, which asks that it be notified of a New York merger ten days ahead of time, says it will not object if the papers can show they are definitely losing money. Another roadblock is the unions-the typographers led by Bert Powers and Tom Murphy's Newspaper Guild. If the papers eliminate too many jobs or fail to offer sufficient compensation to dismissed employees, neither union would hesitate to strike...
...Westerners made Hungary their destination; there they dined on goose liver sautéed in butter at Gundel's, or listened to an Eddy Duchin-like piano at the Pipacs (pronounced Peapatch) nightclub, whose pianist resembles Peter Lorre. Some 620,000 swarmed into Czechoslovakia, to shop the ancient guild houses of Prague, one of the few cities in Europe untouched by the war, or listen to ragtime at such clubs as the Viola...
Engineers-Scientists Guild...