Published by admin on Tue, 11/08/2022 - 4:05pm
Discord over a hike in the wholesale price of newspapers, the newsboys’ who peddled papes for New York City’s two major news outlets threw down their delivery bags in the summer of 1899 taking a stand against the Goliaths of publishing.
Together the newsies formed a union taking on the two most powerful men in publishing—Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
Word spread of an impending strike and just one day after unionizing, the newsies took a stand refusing to sell the city’s two main papers and instead of hawkin’ headlines, they were making them.