strike sheet

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English

Noun

strike sheet (plural strike sheets)

  1. A newsletter or basic newspaper printed to support striking workers.
    • 2006, Chris Wrigley, AJP Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe, page 45:
      He went down to the local Labour Party, met a jobbing printer named Cunningham, and the two of them brought out a strike sheet - Preston Strike News or something it was called.
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 192:
      I was to see Adam Michnik on and off through the long transformation of Poland and watch him emerge as an honored historian and politician as well as the editor of perhaps the country's most respected newspaper, Gazeta Wyborzka, which had begun life as an illegal strike-sheet.