Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-23
NEwsnoYs GO ON STRIKE.
They Protest Against Continuance OF
War Prices.
New York Times, $50

(New York Times 2lst)
'All about de newsboys' striker was
the cry that greeted pedestrians along
Park Row yesterday as the small vendors
pushed toward them punches Of afternoon
sheets. Eve sell 'em all 'cept World n
Journal" they shouted.
The strike Of the newsboys was due to
the fact that the Evening World and Eve
ming journal would not reduce their price
from 60 10 - cents per hundred The
price was raised 90 60 cents az the OUT
break Of the war; when papers were I'm
great demand. and the newsb0ys thought
IL time it was lowered Word was circu-
lated wednesday night that there was 20
be a general strike the next morning and
before noon the fun had begun i'm earnest
Cries Of "Scab, scab" followed the few
who dared to handle the forbidden
papers, and before long few Of them were
10 be found on the streets. Several af-
rays Of minor Importance resulted from
the affair.
In the Wall-Stroet District the strike
was voted nuisance by many because
Of the noisy demonstrations for which the
most important business points were SCI
lected. During the morning many boys
attempted TO sell Evening Worlds and
Journals all over the financial quarter,
and dozen scrimmages az one moment
were features of Wall Broad and lower |
Nassau streets. The strikers won I'm every |
instance. and many Of the papers at |
which the strike was aimed were torn 10 |
and Uttered the pavements.
The police appeared To- have been called /
away % troliey-strike duty. as there was
little interference with the boys. except |
nc the places where the wagons made de-
were scattered. They claimed that only !
o. few papers We're sold. u was. however. !
possible TO obtain copies of the boycotteI
newspapers IN many places, but the yen-
doris of them We're, as rule. st0lwlrt
youths able 20 cope with any mob. of
small boys
At the cust0m-house the boys were en-
90 further endeayOr TO secure /
financial recognition Of the cause by
ooker-on throwing among them a hand
'ul Of small change to BE- scrambled for.
The zeal Of the youngsters 10 secure the
money was so riotous that pennies, !
lckels. dimes, and even quarters were |
'hQwered on the demonstrators from side
walks and windows. In this way the
strikers pocketed a gain far ahead of their
average daily earnings.
II. H. Kuehn. q striking newsboy IS
Years old, was arrested last night Tor
tearing up some newspapers belonging 20
another boy at Thirty-fourth street and
sixth avenue. At the West-Thrtieth-
street station-house he refused to give
MS address Before the Gerry Society
agent arrived a number Of the prisoners
comrades went 10 the statiOn-house with
arge quantities OF fruit and candy for
him. When Kuehn was taken 10 tho Ger
~ Society headquarters q large number
If the boys followed him
When the Jersey City newsboys were
lothed that their brethren IN this city
lad struck they held a meeting at the .
cry, at the foot of Exchange Place. and
ecded not TO sell Journals and Worlds
he wholesale dealers tried 20 persuade !
hem 10 abandon their resolution, but the
Joys were steddfast. Those who wanted
ournals and Worlds could find them az
ONE OF the newstauds, but no boy had
hem for sale.