For four months in 1959, the Mercury and News ceased publication when the unions staged a strike and produced their own newspaper, the San Jose Reporter, until new contracts were negotiated.
Memorandum to Newspaper Guild explaining the strike and how the San Jose Reporter will be published, dated February 23, 1959.
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