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“‘Newsies’
Standing Fast”
(New
York Daily Tribune,
There was no let up . . . in the newsboys’ strike
yesterday, although the advice of the leader at the mass meeting, against
violence, was generally followed. (T)he boys seem to
be gaining confidence in the issue, and they declared yesterday that the
opposition to their demands could not continue much longer. “Say, dem fellers ain’t printen’ papes
fer der healt’,”
said one of the urchins, “an’ I guess dey sees now dat wot we says goes. All t’ings comes to de blokes wot
waits, an’ say, we’s good waiters, all right. I guess
we’ll get wot we wants.”
“Kid” Blink was in a pacific frame of mind yesterday, and
he was busy most of the day impressing is peaceful doctrines on some of the
more riotously inclined strikers. “I’m t’inkin’ erbout callin’ a peace confrance,” he said,
“same like what de boss what runs
Rusher done. Say, how’s dat fer
a skeme, hey? We’ll decide just how many uv
de
little fellers has er right to tackle one uv dem big scabs, an’ we’ll guff
a lot erbout de use uv
sticks an’ stones in de strike. Dat kind o’ t’ing don’t go no more in dis here strike. Dat’s wot I tol ‘em
at de meetin’, an’ it goes!” . . . .