riding question that haunts this account of the strike is whether the economically depressed Wilkes-Barre area might have been better off if the original unions had gotten less and kept more business in the region. This, of course, could only be accomplished at the price of inhumane conditions and terrible compensation. Yet, in their confrontation with Capital Cities, the newspaper workers were not on the same sort of grounds the mineworkers had held. Their control of the workplace far exceeded what was found in any other newspaper in the country and abuses of privilege certainly did exist. In addition, the Wilkes-Barre Newspaper Guild was protecting itself from what might be considered reasonable competition. There was a great deal of money t
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