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Omaha Steve

(99,663 posts) Mon Jul 20, 2015, 06:14 PM Jul 2015

7-20-15 NO Newspaper Today in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/july-20-no-newspaper-today/

July 20, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1899. That was the day New York City newsboys went on strike. A newspaper article noted: “The Newsboys’ Union has decided to tie up the World and the Journal. They have struck for better rates on the evening editions of these papers, and their demands have been refused.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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