Columbia Basin News was a morning daily newspaper

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 published in Pasco, Washington

Pasco, Washington

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 in the United States

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 from 1950 to 1963.

A strike

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 and subsequent lockout

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 occurred at the Tri-City Herald

Tri-City Herald

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in 1950. Employees of the Herald, an afternoon daily published in Kennewick, Washington

Kennewick, Washington

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, (across the river from Pasco) went on to help found the Columbia Basin News with the backing of the International Typographical Union

International Typographical Union

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, the same union whose members struck the Herald months before.

The News' publisher was Howard Parrish, former publisher of The Seattle Star (1899-1947).