A Newsie Lead- McKenzie

            The hot sun beat down on the crowd as a single newsboy stood in Park Row, New York, on a nice July day in 1899. Park Row was filled with the common loud chatter and the reverberating footsteps as a lone newsboy stood and handed out both his new and old papers with a stunningly bright smile on his young face. Not long after the shrewd young boy had taken notice that there were no competitors nearby to interfere with how much money her earned, a long bone-chilling "Scab!" rang out, and almost immediately hundreds of the striking Newsies dashed to swarm him. Shock dominated the boy's face as well as a frown as he looked up at the group of boys and saw that their jaws were obviously set. They wasted no time and asked the latter of the majority, "Why don't you stick to your union?" The boy, who was reluctant in giving his reason for becoming a traitor, had the papers that had previously filled his arms violently knocked to the cold, muddy ground, tearing loudly as the striking newsboys carelessly tread over them. Cries of pain could be heard from afar as the boy was beaten by the larger group of boys who had the advantage in numbers. Since Pulitzer and Hearst had raised the prices and made making money nearly impossible, the young and furious Newsies threw their own papers into the mud, went on strike, and fled from the angered police while evading nearly certain arrest.