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...York World-Telegram and Sun, morale is down in the dumps. Editor Richard Peters has gone on vacation, and staffers doubt that he will return to work. One staffer after an other has left for another job. At the Journal-American, reporters are calculating their seniority and worrying about whether they can survive a merger. The word is out that peripatetic Editor John Denson is getting ready to move once more. In the city room of the Herald Tribune, reporters long hardened to the possibility that the paper itself might not survive are beginning to nurse a new nervousness that...
...three papers, the reason for the unpleasant uncertainty is the same: persistent and well-founded rumors of an imminent merger between the daily World-Telegram and the Journal-American and between the Sunday Trib and the Sunday Journal. Last week, concern over such a consolidation was heightened by reports on TV and radio, and in the Wall Street Journal. Some commentators even suggested that the final plans had been sent to Washington for Justice Department approval. They had not. The precise date of the slow-motion merger, which has been in the works for three years, remains a mystery...
...three-week strike was officially over, and all New York City newspapers were publishing again. It was an uneasy and precarious peace. The Newspaper Guild's Tom Murphy seemed to he threatening yet another walkout: "If the World-Telegram and Journal-American were to merge," said he, speaking of an event the industry expects, "I could put a picket line out, and they wouldn't publish as individual papers, let alone as a merged paper." Printers' Boss Bert Powers was reminding everyone that he has not given an inch in his demands. Any new contracts, said Powers...
Neither was most of the competition. When the nine other newspaper unions refused to cross the Guild picket line, the papers belonging to the New York Publishers Association-the Her-a'd Tribune, Daily News, Journal-American, World-Telegram, Long Island Daily Press and Star-Journal-shut down too. Of the city's major dailies, only the New York Post, which does not belong to the association, was still on newsstands-a situation that served as an ominous reminder of 1962's 114-day newspaper strike, which crippled the city's papers and helped send...
Worried by well-founded rumors of an imminent merger of the World-Telegram and Journal-American that might put 600 Guild members out of work, Murphy also wants a pledge from the Times that it will hire some of his displaced Guildsmen. And he wants management to guarantee that no Guildsman will lose his job except by attrition: by quitting or retiring. The Times has given such a guarantee to the I.T.U., but is willing to give it only to those Guild members hired as full-time employees before March 31, 1965, the date of expiration of the last contract...