History
Harry Ault was instrumental in the temporary success of the Union Record. [5] Prior to working as the editor of the Union Record Ault worked for various other newspaper organizations. As a child, he worked as a newsboy selling the Kentucky Post . [5] At 11 he started the Amateur's Friend and was selling the Weekly People the next year. [5] He would later publish The Young Socialist and at age 19 became the editor of The Socialist . [5] Nine years later, in 1912, he began to work as the editor of the Union Record which had a circulation of 3,000. [5]
The Union Record went daily on the afternoon of April 24, 1918, launching with a daily circulation 40,000 — a number equal to about 90% of the trade unionists in the city of Seattle; [6] this made it the country's first daily labor newspaper. [7] The paper obtained wire service from United Press International, posting $100,000 security with the firm in the form of bonds to guarantee the costs occurring through telegraphic news reporting. [6] Economical production was made possible by the company's ownership of three fast web printing presses. [6]
From its humble origins with a print run of 3,000 copies, circulation of the Union Record would ultimately peak at the 80,000 mark. [5]
The paper would play a large role in organizing and supporting the Seattle General Strike of 1919. [2]
The name was revived in November 2000 as the name of an online newspaper run by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild when journalists from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times went on strike. [8] [9] It ceased publication in January 2001. [10]
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