The newsboys of New York City were a group of poor child laborers who were typically orphans, whose every day job was to sell newspapers. Everyday they would buy a nonrefundable bundle of 100 newspapers, then through the rest of the day going throughout the city, they would sell those papers for a cent a piece.Then after the price of a bundle changed from 50 cents to 60 cents, newsboys in Long Island City, went on strike. Their demands were that the price of 100 papers be reverted to the original 50 cents. The day after, word spread about the strike and newsboys in Manhattan and Brooklyn also declared that they were going on strike. In the early days of the strike the newsboys used violence against anyone breaking the strike, but after a major rally at Irving Hall of nearly 7000 newsboys and the communication that ensued, they switched to non violent (unless provoked) tactics. The newsboys used word of mouth and large rallies to communicate, organize and build support. For example at the start of the strike the newsboys used word of mouth to communicate but as the strike grew they started also using large rallies, such as the aforementioned one at Irving Hall. If not for this communication the strike would have likely not had nearly as much solidarity and it could have fallen apart. In the years after the strike, at least two strikes happened that the newsboy strike could be credited with inspiring, one was the newsboys strike of 1914 in Butte, Montana, and the other in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1920s. Then, 39 years after the New York City newsboys strike, child labor laws were passed preventing kids under the age of 14 from working at all.