Max Berg papers, circa 1950-1980

Berg, Max,

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Berg, Max, d. 1979.

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Max Berg was an Oregon journalist and labor activist. He was born in Kellogg, Idaho and moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1950. He graduated from Portland State University in 1961 and served as political editor of the Portland Reporter around 1964. A political activist, he served as a union organizer for the United Paper Makers and Paper Workers, AFL-CIO; the Oregon Education Association; and as the last president of the Portland Newspaper Guild. From the description of Max Berg papers, ...

United Papermakers and Paperworkers

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Portland Newspaper Guild (Or.)

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Oregon Education Association

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Portland Reporter Publishing Co., Inc.,

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The Portland Reporter newspaper was born out of a long and bitter strike by union workers against the Samuel Newhouse-owned Oregonian, a morning paper, and the Oregon Journal, an afternoon newspaper controlled by trustees of the founding Jackson Family. The striked started in November 1959, and the unions launched the Portland Reporter as a weekly on Feb. 11, 1960. It went semi-weekly April 12, 1960, and daily (except Sunday) on Feb. 11, 1961. At its height, circulation reached 78,0...