New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Their Action Forced by Pa
hiotic Customers, Price
Not Being an Issue
"Ap Smith Stands
For a Square Deal
City Officials Weaken on
Plan for Revocation
of Licenses

All of Long Island is now UP in
arms against the Hearst newspapers.
Until yesterday the strike spirit
among the newsdealers was confined
to Manhattan and that part of Long
Island embracing Brooklyn and its i'm
mediate suburbs. Yesterday Joseph
Hirsch, of Lawrence, Long Island,
president of the Long Island News
dealers Association, and Louis Ian
dau, secretary, issued calls for meet
ing TO be held tomorrow morning in
Jamaica, where vote to stop handling
Hearst papers will be taken.
No question of price, as in ether sec
tons, enters into the case Of the Long
Island dealers. They would, they say,
pay Hearst any price he might demand
for his papers were it not that by so
doing they would automatically put
themselves cut of business, so keen is
the anti Hearst feeling among the pa
triotc residents of Long Island.
As matters stand, they say, they
have their choice Of two things: To
continue to handle Hearst papers and
have community stores established for
the sale Of other newspapers, periodi-
Gals and such wares as newsdealers
H. Il
retain their business. The one spells
commercial death, the other COM
merclal life and prosperity.
Other Developments
The Long Island development was
the most important of yesterday.
Others wee:
I The :, claration of Alfred E. Smith,
IL President Of the Board Of Alder
men, that he is with the newsboys and
newsdealers of the greater city in
their fight for square deal from the
Bureau of Licenses, and his promise
to meet with and work with a COM
mittee OF strikers to obtain for them
that square deal. Incidentally, Mr..
Smith disclain any responsibility for
the position taken by his friend,
License Comm vsioner John +. Gill
christ, who, he says, is following the
orders of Mayor Hylan.
J Acting Park Commissioner Will
=. lam H. Muldoon, of Brooklyn, who
cancelled the license Of John William
son 70 sell papers at Borough Hall, ex-
planned that he was acting under orders
in 30 doing, and that he will cancel the
paper is based on the latter's "belief
That 1t is disloyal or not q proper
paper TO sell" In such cases, he said,
the question viii have to be settled by
the courts. This marks distinct re
Teat from the position taken earlier
mat, irrespective of the dealers wishes
or opinion, he must sell Hearst papers
Stifening up of the line of resis-
W tance against Hearst among the
he"sboys Of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Following the Instructions of their
counsel, Lemuel Ely Quigg, they will
seh what papers they choose, ire
spectiye Of instructions from anybody.
whether that person be in or out Of
oni'orm, and until an arrest is actu
aiiy made. They will then proceed
peacefully with the arresting officer,
make verbal protest against their ar
rest TO the Office at the desk and then
With the telephone, which the police
must place at their disposal, notify Mr..
2aigg, phone number $3.50 John. Ar.
'es's' however, arc not expected
d An attempt to camouhage the stu
- alton in The Bronx through tho
puniication in local paper that the
H@flsm News Dcalers' Annexation had
.o'sd to resume selling all papers. The
,"cs are that in Harlem there has
'eehno strike. The dealers there voted
approval Of the action Of the joint
committee and TO await strike orders.
Strikers' Lines Stiffened
"hqnestionably the outstanding feat
N's "Y the second week of the strike
s~mN Hearst is the action of the
.'nx Island newsdcalcrs Unexpected
y mas stifencd up the lines Of the
IN other sections and aroused