Background Music for the Strike

Background Music for the Strike Nireekshak AS the newspaper strike dragged on, exchanges between spokesmen of managements and employees gained in acerbity, with Patriot in the thick of it all On August 12 it published on its front page a letter it had received from the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society taking it to task for keeping its offices closed on June 29 in sympathy with the token strike call given by newspaper employees. The IENS branded this expression of sympathy with workers as "reprehensible" and threatened that the Society would have to consider "what action to take".