Published by admin on Tue, 07/17/2018 - 8:26pm
In July 1899, with dissent growing over a hike in the wholesale price of newspapers, the newsboys’ who peddled papes for New York City’s two major new outlets threw down their delivery bags.
The newsies rallied, formed a union and set out to take on the two most powerful men in publishing—Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
Word spread across the city of an impending strike and on July 20, one day after unionizing, the newsies took a stand and refused to sell Pulitzer’s New York World and the New York Journal published by Hearst.