The New Haven Union (New Haven, Conn.) 1895-192?

• 1905–1913
• Newspaper

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3,112 issues from 1905 to 1913, published in New Haven, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.

The New Haven Union family of newspapers was born out of an 1870 printers’ strike in New Haven, Connecticut. The strike attracted national attention after officers of the New Haven Typographical Union Number 47 were arrested for conspiracy, and a mass meeting of trades unions was held on the New Haven Green, attended by Alexander Troup, a journalist and officer of the National Typographical Union. From this meeting came the idea of starting an independent labor party in Connecticut, and to support it, a labor newspaper, which would be edited by Alexander Troup.

The first issue of the Sunday Morning Union was published on July 23, 1871. Although the labor party never came to fruition, the Union grew to be one of the largest circulated daily newspapers in New Haven, under the leadership of Alexander Troup and his wife Augusta Lewis Troup. Augusta Troup was a suffragist, journalist, and labor activist, who founded the first trade union for women in New York City, the Women’s Typographical Union Local No. 1. She was also the first woman to hold office in the all-male International Typographical Union.

Initially, the Sunday Morning Union was published on Sundays, to the consternation of local clergy. The Troups then switched the publication date to Saturday, and from 1871 to 1873, the Saturday Evening Union was published. Weekly editions were published until 1901. The first daily edition, the Daily Evening Union, was published from 1873 to 1875. The daily newspaper was…

Genres

News

Published in

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Language

English

Collection

Chronicling America

Licence or status

None stated by the archive

Rights

The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.

Credit

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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