New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
IN Brooklyn About 1900
Newsdealers Refuse to
Handle Them
Ran Is Extended
Also to Magazines
In Manhattan Newsboys'
Unions Carry Fight Into
Evening Field

The dealers and newsboys' war on
The Hearst papers opened yesterday in
two phases, as planned.
In Brooklyn approximately twelve
hundred newsdealers refused to sell
The Nev York American and The
Erenino Journal and many of them
extended the ban to cover the Hearst
nagsziues, which are The Cosmopoh-
ian, Good Housekeeping. HdrDers
Basaar, Heurst's Motor and Motor
Boating.
In Manhattan $50 members OF the
nevsboys' unions took up the strike.
They began by refusing to handle the
midnight edition of The Neao York
insr;can and succeeding during the .
dsy in keeping The Evening Journal
very much out OF evidence.
instead of meeting the Brooklyn /,
strike By refusing to deliver any other
papers to newsdealers who cancelled |
their orders for Hearst papers, as was
first intended, the American News Com
oany. through it's Brooklyn agency,
gnored 1000 odd cancellations and de-
yered Hearst newspapers as usual to
III dealers. just as if nothing had hap
oened. The result was that every anti
Hearst newsdealer had a pile of Hearst
papers which he had not bought and
vould not sell and viii refuse to pay
.or.
This matter was reported to the
government as waste of paper, in the
ollowing telegram;
Thomas E. Donnelley,
Chief OF the Pulp and Paper Sec
lion, War Industries Board,
Washington, D. c.
"A great number OF newsdealers in
Blocslyn, New York City. have sent
edisidual Instructions to the Brooklyn
News Company, ~ Debevoise Place,
s'eoalyn. a subsidiary Of the American
,ews Company, of 8 Park Place, New
iesk City. TO discontinue sending them
.he newsdealers) The New York
american The Brooklyn News Com
any, however, have disregarded these
orders Of the individual newsdealers
aapers, causing great wastage of
hsSsprint paper this morning because
ne newsdealers did not sell copies of
ine New York American which they
I'D not order.
We request that the Paper Division
the War Industries Board take ac-
s'oh against the Brooklyn News Com
pzhy aud demand that they cease this
'aslage at once.
Signed United Ncwsdealers' Pro-
,ss ,ss'ye Association Of Brooklyn, Inc,
30 halsey Street, Brooklyn, N Y.
81. SULTAN, President"
>. ne shall all Of Us Individually refuse
Iaio hr. Sultan. "Thc Hearst crowd"
~ added, has adopted characteristic
..ssies Many dealers report that Hearst
sssh's are threatening them with ar
s'.,, .,, Indictment, loss of license and
y. among the dealers so approached,
- sultan said, were NJ. Haitow, L..
sa' Of sS Saratoga Avenue, and S.
sssssa' OF 829 Nostrand Avenue. eve
e warned them, however, that these
~. =. familiar Hearst tactics. and that
Y need not mind" Mr. Sultan added.
s.wI manhattan members Of the unions
~ a. i'rst much difficulty in obtaining
~. evening papers, owings to an
ssa sssssnlent among the publishers who
Sapporinx Hearst not to serve
~ papers 20 dealers and vendors
~ r se!use TO sell Eearst's.
,b.."s Iribunc is the only newspaper
dssl.rs. pApe'' 10 a"'i-heafs'
,,s,.asrefore, on the anti-Hearst news
asss.s vas displayed the following
nsNAUsE WE REFUSE TO SELL
,s.axST PUBLICATIONS THE PUB
S''hERs WILL NOT SERVE US.
80 .v,qsring the day the newsboys found
s.y W t;asing few Evening Jouynals
ss sas,.g .5a'd get all the other papers they
sss.: 20 many of them bought
~ sp,e'...No .o JourmQLs for no other pur-
. k,sn nan to make themselves eligible
taa.;,ns n'e other evening papers. The
AZ a.n W.. became very lax before the
J1."as over The same Evemin0
s-id1Hots wsre used over and over, a.
s,nss ssy ass OF the holders eligibility 10
Z c'her papers.
a.x.aa Intended by the Hearst people
NIL, II possible, 10 hold the other
rs,..shers are atig and 10 cut off ali
So from the strikers, reducing
e. 1nsfeby To idieness.
son H.. Sultan, president. ant
th harcns, secretary Of the
M. 'N.rnittee Of newedeaIers in tho
ss,.5. cry, announce monster mass
s.s;.x o' newSdnaiers at $50 o'clocl
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