Talk:Newsboys Strike of 1899

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[edit] Topics

Is additional information on the newsboys advisable, or is the current focus (on the newsboys' strike of 1899) important enough to remain so prominent in the article?

[edit] Merger

I propsed the merge. this page is un-necessary. already exists as paperboy.--Tainter 04:01, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• It's a good point, but the reason I created the article was because of the lack of any hits for searches on "newsboy," "newsie," or "newspaper boy." I would agree with your suggestion to merge this article with the other, but add that the information on this page should be added to "paperboy," as there is no discussion on that page of the newsboy in any kind of historical context. My only issue with this would be that "paperboy" has the connotation of a boy bicycling around town to throw papers on people's doorsteps. I don't think I'm alone in this, as that's currently all the article explores. As seen in this article, however, the newboy was a very visible member of the exploitation of child workers around the turn of the 20th century...a very different image.

• • Merge and Keep. Merge the info on the job, and write a new article on The Newsboys Strike. – Freechild (BoomCha) 12:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I oppose merging this article. It refers to a specific event in history. I came to this article from the Newsies article because I wanted specific information about the event upon which the movie was based. Ridenm 03:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

The current version of the article is a rewrite, and the merger tag is removed. – Freechild (BoomCha) 05:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unclear article quote

The end of the article contains this quote:

"The strike ended upon the newspapers' agreement to buy back all the papers the boys had refused to sell, and the union disbanded. Some decades later, the introduction of urban child-welfare practices led to improvements in the newsboys' quality of life."

It is unclear what exactly is happening. Could someone with knowledge of the event correct this? Picoter 01:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. So the boys did not sell papers and the newspapers agreed to buy them back?? Huh?? Really now, what concessions did the papers make? How long was the strike?? This is long on "color" but short on facts. Madman (talk) 02:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)