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During 1901, the Seattle Newsboys' Union strikes The Seattle Times to force the newspaper to rescind its requirement that its newsboys refrain from selling other newspapers.

The newsboys succeeded in forcing the Times to rescind its policy of exclusivity.

Sources: [Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Third Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Washington 1901-1902 (Seattle: Metropolitan Press, Inc., Public Printer, 1903), 105; [Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Sixth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1907-1908 (Olympia: C.W. Gorham, Public Printer, 1908), 146.

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