Last week Californians knew from their daily papers that a strike of 25,000 longshoremen was paralyzing Pacific Coast shipping, threatening Alaska and Hawaii with a shortage of supplies. Clevelanders knew there was a newsboys' strike in progress when they failed to receive their copies of the News, the Press, and the Plain Dealer. Citizens of New Orleans knew that a squabble about "company unions" among dockworkers was making rough & tumble news along the waterfront. Citizens of Hartford, of Buffalo, of St. Louis, of Houston, of Baltimore, of Indianapolis, of Pekin,...
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