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Why Did The Newsboys Strike

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The Newsboys were the kids that were out on the street that were typically orphans or poor who sold the newspaper. Approximately 10,000 newsboys worked the streets. Most of the publishers of the paper wouldn’t buy back the unsold papers the Newsboys had. The cause of the strike was the rise in prices for the bundles of papers the Newsboys had to buy and it happened in late July and early August. The owner of the The Evening World, Joseph Pulitzer, and The Evening Journal, William Randolph Hearst, upped the price from 50 cents a bundle to 60 cents a bundle. The Newsboys could barely pay for the papers on their own, upping the price just made it even harder for them.

The Newsboys decided the go on strike and held many rallies that drew in
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