On the Street

The number of unemployed newsmen in New York City has been estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen.

Promoter of Newsdom is one Max J. Klein who worked 21 years in the business departments of New York dailies, was discharged more than a year ago from Paul Block's Brooklyn Standard Union. He took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper. News editor is Jack Hyatt, longtime Hearstling. Thirty other ex-newsmen worked on the first issue. If 6,000 copies of the edition of 10,000 are sold at 25-c-, Manager Klein declares there will be enough to pay each worker about half of what he used to earn when regularly employed. Any surplus would be used to build a relief fund, he said.

Outstanding features of Newsdom are articles and drawings contributed without pay by famed (working) newsmen and artists. "Guest artist" of the first issue is Winsor McCay. "Guest colyumist" is Hearst's Idwal Jones. "Guest story-teller'' is Martin Green, long of the World, now of the Sun.

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