From the Feb. 13, 2020, issue of “Connecting” newsletter of Associated Press/AP retirees. What’s below is a slightly edited version of what’s in “Connecting.”
Reminder of a bitter newspaper strike in Oregon
These photos
were taken Feb. 5, 2020, by Connecting contributor Tim Marsh.
They show a sign
painted on an outside wall of a building at 207 W. 3rd St. -- currently vacant
and for lease -- in downtown The Dalles, Ore., some 85 miles east of Portland,
the state's largest city. The sign is a historical remnant of what the Oregon
Encyclopedia says was the "third longest newspaper strike in the United
States."
The strike, from
Nov. 10, 1959, to Oct. 1, 1964, involved three Portland dailies, the Oregonian,
Oregon Journal and Portland Reporter.
Read about the
strike by clicking here (link below)
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/portland_reporter_the/#.XkY4z-TsbAZ
Source: Feb. 13, 2020, issue of "Connecting" (link below)
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1116239949582&ca=a5065bb2-7af6-40c9-8875-3a603aca413a
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On Feb. 15, 2020, The Dalles Chronicle newspaper ran one of the photos and a cutline.
In cutline, Tim Marsh quoted as saying, "I'm particularly interested in what business was located in the building in the late 1950s and early 1960s." In response, Carolyn Wood, pcforman40@gmail.com, responded by email saying, "That was the location of the Union Hall in the 1950s and 1960s. My husband worked out of there."
