This Day In History, 1962
Dec. 8th, 2004 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mabfanStriking workers of the International Typographical Union closed nine New York City newspapers, including the Herald-Tribune, Journal American, Long Island Star Journal, Long Island Press, New York Times, Daily Mirror, and World Telegram. The strike lasted 114 days, ending on April 1, 1963. A total of 5,700,000 readers were affected by the shutdown.
