New-York tribune., 1918-11-08
Newsboys' Fight
On Hearst Backed
BY Another Union
United Housesmiths and
Bridgemen lndorse De-
mands of Vendors

Local Union No. DO. Of the United
Housesmths and Bridgemen. has added
its name to the increasing number of
lator bodies standing with the news
boys in their fight against the Hearst
newspapers.
The organization, meeting at 154
East Fifty fourth Street, adopted reso-
lutions indorsing the venders' cam
naign to obtain more advantageous
working conditions from the Hearst
agents and extending to them the moral
support of its 1000 members.
The resolution was placed before the
body by William j Wade, its president,
after plea and statement of the news
boys plight by their leader, Andrew
Stanton. Mr.. Stanton represented to
the Bridgemen that the efforts of the
Hearst managers in forcing venders TO
handle the New York "Ame rican" and
The Evening Journal" although a
great portion of the public would not
purchase these papers for patriotic rea
sons, WAS mainly responsible for their
present predicament.
when we asked the Publishers
Association to reduce the price of the
papers to Us from $1.40 a hundred to
S1.20 a hundred" he said, "the pub
Usher Of the New York 'American' and
The Evening Journal was the only one
Of the newspaper owners who declined
to grant our request. The others were
generally willing, but Hearst being the
largest publisher in the city and domi-
natlng the situation we were denied
relief except in the case of one news
paper, The Tribune, which broke from
the others and granted our demands.
How Trouble Started
Our troubles began when we de-
eided to strike against the Hearst
newspapers to attain our ends. The
would not take full orders of the New
York American and The Evening
Journal we wouldn't get any of the
other newspapers, while the city
officials, friends of the Hearst crowd.
informed us that if we DIDN'T handle
the Hearst newspapers in the regular
way we would lose our licenses.
ut can only be realized how difficult
our situation is when it is known that
we have been selling few New York
"Amercans' OF Evening Journals" be.
cause the people will not have them.
IN many cases we can't give these
papers away, and our boys have lost
many customer because they car
RED them. And yet we are forced to
handle them or starve. Such oppres
! sion IS worthy of the Kaiser"
Ihe resolution as adopted read:
Whereas. The newsboys of the C,itv
! OF New York, in their erorts to better
their living and working conditions.
have requested the publishers of dailv
newspapers of the city to grant them
greater. profit SO that they might be
enabled to meet the present high COST
of living, and
Fair Demands Refused,
Whereas, The said newsboys claim
that their fair demands were refused
because of the influence of the pub
Usher of the New York Anne rican
and the Evening Journal and
whereas, The said newsboys contend
they are being forced to handle these
newspapers despite the fact that n
great portion of the public will not buy
| them for patriotic reasons, and
Whereas, The said newsbovs have
struck. against these papers to attain
their just ends, therefore be it
Resolved, That the United House
smiths and Bridgemen Local Union No
az, expresses its sincere sympathy with
ana endorses the strike of the news
bows of the Greater City against the
Hearst papers, and as a loyal labor
organization, extends to them it's moral
aid and support