Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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Then I can go out and get better ones." He doesn't even remember what the story was, now, except that it wasn't anything colossal. But the editor did like it, and did give him a job, at slightly less than enough money to live on. BY the time the strike was over the ■* World had reached an unbelievable circulation, and was so broke it couldn't pay its reporters. It had no advertising, and the big circulation ate up paper at such a rate it was losing money hand over fist. On the night the big dailies resumed publication the editor took the entire staff of the World to a neighboring saloon and told them they could have all they wanted to drink. It was the best he could do; he owed them all three weeks' pay, and the little bit of money he had left, while it could provide a glorious brawl, wouldn't have gone far if divided up among twenty men. The funeral obsequies for the Chicago Socialist World ended up toward dawn in Floyd's room on North Clark street — an airless hole with its one window covered by a burlesque theater sign which burned brightly all night. Floyd and his nineteen fellow reporters went to sleep there, mostly on the floor and in the bathtub, although Floyd, as host, got the bed. To add the final touch to a riotous evening, the rent on the room hadn't been paid for three weeks and the twenty men didn't have one cent between them. The big papers, now that they had resumed publication, were busy retrenching, trying to save what the big strike had cost them. They were hiring only the irreducible minimum of reporters necessary to get the news — and those they did hire were the men who had been with them longest before the strike. But, as Floyd says, the thing he has always liked best about reporting is that it is the easiest profession in the world in which to get a job. 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