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Plainfield Newsies Inaugurate a Strike Against These Sheets. IT’S A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY “RED” AND “YELLOW” JOURNALS. Newsboys Gather at the Railroad Station and Attempt to Prevent the Agents From Beceiving Their Bundles—Strikers Chase Somes of the “Scabs” and Put Them to Reate—More Trouble Expected. The newsboy strike against the New York World and Journal has ex tended to this city. It is a sympathetic strike and promises to make trouble in this city for those papers. All of Saturday a spirit of unrest was noticed among the little chaps who sell the red heads and yellow journals. During the day groups of newsboys gathered about their usual haunts and discussed the situation which confronts their colleagues in the big city. At these off-hand gatherings the con sensus of opinion was that in justice to their ideas of manhood and fair dealing to their fellow sufferers in the ranks, that they could no longer con tinue to deal in Worlds of Journals while those publications were in a war of oppression But not until the opinion of Jack Vardon, the “yellow kid,” the recog nized leader among the newsboys, was secured that decisive action was agreed upon. So the word went out that a strike which were printed, “Don’t buy Worlds or Journals after 4:3¢, Stand by the newsboys in their rights!” Things were unusually quiet until the arrival of the Worlds and Journals at 4:30 in the afternoon. Then the sun began in earnest. Tom Timbo is agent for the World. He was early at Tad pie pre had the “Yellow Kid’. As the train rolled into the station and the bundle of Worlds was kicked to the platform. The kids papers. But the trouble was not at end, “Pete” ‘VanArsdale, a plucky little chap, is agent for the Journal. He did not fare as well as Timbo. Some of the newsboys pounced upon him and before he realized the danger many of his papers had been confis cated. In twinkling his enemies In the meantime the newsboys who were selling Timbo’s Worlds were having a peck of trouble. They had been followed up Park avenue and when an opportunity presented were upon and in his efforts to eave his stock of papers was roughly handled, and his clothing besmeared with tar, that some of the strikers had secured from heavy wagons and put upon sticks. Out of 80 Journals Pete suc ceeded in eaving but four. The strike was increasing in size and the strikers were growing more bold when Freckles’ Hall espied a man on Second street walking a slack wire. Instantly there was a stampede and many desertions from the ranks of the strikers, who ran pell mell up the street to witness the athlete’s per formance, leaving the persecuted newsboys whom they had been chas ing in possession of prospective cus tomers. At 8 o’clock, however, there was more trouble in store for the agents of the Worlds and Journals. At about that hour a New York train reached town having board a batch of extras. When the bundles were thrown off at the North Avenue station there was no attempt to confiscate the packages. There was a partial suc cess, théo. One boy picked up a bun dle of Journals and threw it clear through the door of the express car. The package landed upon the opposite side of the track, and when the train pulled out it was again picked up and CONTINUED ON FAGE 8.
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Plainfield Daily Press
Plainfield, New Jersey, US
Mon, Jul 24, 1899
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