Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — BOYCOTTING A NEWSPAPER. [ARTICLE]

BOYCOTTING A NEWSPAPER.

A Novel Plan to Diminish th© Now York Tribune’s Revenues. [New Yqrk Telegram.] The Trades Union Council has taken up the printers’ fight in the Tribune office, and has r issued notices to all toe theater managers that union men will boycott theaters advertising in the Tribune. Co-operative aid will be asked of every trades union organization in the country to further the following scheme: Many leading papers 'in America have branch business offices or news bureaus in the Tribune building, occupying the greater part of the immense structure, and an effort will be made to have them move out through the Influences brought to bear on the home offices through the local trades unions. President O’Doouen, of the Typographical union, admitted the existence of sotne such scheme when he said to a reporter: “We haven’t got through with the Tribune yet, oad before we do we will have your office moved out of the building.”