Boston, which normally suffers from a surfeit of mediocre daily newspapers, was suffering from an even worse complaint: no newspapers at all for the past three weeks. All six city dailies* had been struck by the mailers, the essential musclemen who get the papers from the press to the delivery truck. Though they are affiliated with the tough, conservative International Typographical Union, the Boston mailers struck independently for higher wages, hoping to build up their bargaining position against the day next year when the Boston Globe moves into a new plant where automation...
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