BOYCOTT OF SYDNEY NEWSPAPER
No Weakening On Either Side (Received October 1, 5.55 p.m.) Sydney, October 1. The second day of the newsagents’ and newsboys’ boycott of “The Sun” found no weakening on either side, with the result that the city again is practically without an afternoon paper. It is possible to buy tlie paper at “The Sun” office and underground stations where vendors are under contract to continue selling, but the net sales have’ fallen to a fraction of an ordinary day, while th e raucous voices of the newsboys are conspicuous by their absence. Large bundles of “Suns” were set on fire by strikers immediately they were unloaded from a lorry in Kogarah suburb. There were also a few bouts of fisticuffs between strikers and would-be volunteers.
Newsagents declare that “The Sun” management, aiming to extend home delivery, imposed conditions regarded by them as intolerable and uneconomical
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 11
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149BOYCOTT OF SYDNEY NEWSPAPER Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 11
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