The Press: Portland: How Good Is a Strike?

Despite the fact that one New York paper was ready to quit fighting and start publishing (see above), the city's 13-week-old newspaper strike seemed to go on and on. And despite the fact that Cleveland's unions were anxious to settle, Cleveland's 14-week-old strike also seemed endless. But neither city has anything on Portland, Ore. There, an almost forgotten dispute has dragged on since November 1959, and is not one pica closer to settlement than it was when it began. But unlike New York or Cleveland, Portland has not been without its newspapers for one...

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