Article: DAILY NEWS WAR BREAKS OUT IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK - As headlines go, it wasn't exactly "Ford to city: Drop dead." If anything "The Fight for the News," yesterday's Daily News banner, understated the strife between 2,200 striking workers and the Chicago media conglomerate that owns the biggest tabloid in town.

But not even a flat headline can mask ink-stained tabloid drama.

As the presses rolled before dawn Thursday, Gary Kalinich, 41, sat down at his post at a conveyor belt at the Daily News' Brooklyn printing plant -- a sprained knee, he said. His foreman suspended him.

Within an hour, 30 other suspended Daily News men were lobbing rocks at a busload of company-hired replacements. By yesterday, every union except the ...

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