Sixty-five years after he went on strike at The Oregonian, Gene Klare was back in the pages of that newspaper. Klare — who served as editor of the Labor Press from 1965 to 1986 — was the subject of a lengthy profile April 3 in the Oregonian about the bitter 1959-1965 strike that ended in the destruction of the union at Oregon’s largest newspaper.
The article, “Why a violent Portland newspaper strike in the 1960s sparked one man’s decades-long obsession,” looks at the impact the strike had on Klare.
After spending 21 years as editor of the Labor Press, Klare continued to write a column here for another 22 years. Klare died in May 2008 at the age of 81, four months after his last column appeared in these pages.
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