They Also Serve

We have stood by, silent and tight-lipped for three days, while New Yorkers have done without their major newspapers. Every day we have held back, hoping the strike would end. We can stand by and watch no longer. The CRIMSON is bringing its newsprint to New York.

On no account does this action imply that we are taking sides in the dispute. We are not trying to force the other papers to settle without full arbitration. Our mission is one of public service, and public service only. But we cannot hope to print as many as four million copies, and we ask those lucky New Yorkers who receive a copy to share it with their friends--even with total strangers. We can only ask that no one resell the CRIMSON at more than the printed price of five cents.

Of course, we plan to stop publication of our New York edition as soon as the strike is settled. Until then, our Cambridge readers must be patient with us.