Cover; Contents; foreword; A Story That Ha s To Be Told; Acknowledgements; Key Players at the Time of The Straits Times Strike; 01 A Powerful Ally; 02 A Brewing Storm; 03 The La st Straw; 04 The Great Glass Cage; 05 The Daily Rush; 06 The Widget; 07 The Reluctant Union Leader; 08 Ganja, Alcohol and the Addiction of the Byline; 09 The Ang Moh and Stories of Love and Lust; 10 The Opening Gambit; 11 The Slow Waltz; 12 Out! Out! Out!; 13 The Battle at the Front Lines; 14 The Beginning of the End; Photo; 15 Celebrating a Victory; 16 Looking Back, Looking Ahead; References; About the author
Summary
Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic strike that shut down The Straits Times, a company that had the proud tradition of never being off the streets in its 120 years of existence, not even during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. "Clement has written a cracker of a book. Even if you don't love that national institution called The Straits Times, he tells a gripping tale of idealism, bravado and table-banging drama featuring indignant young journalists who take their battle against their parsimonious, di
