there were a few events that led to changes within copyediting as a career. one of these, the successful strike of the editorial department of the "newark ledger" from november 17, 1934 to march 28, 1935, was "the first major action of its kind by any local guild...[it] both confirmed the irreversibility of the guilds' movement away from the professional association idea and greatly accelerated that process". paired with another string of strikes led by the new york newspaper guild against a number of smaller newspapers in the summer of 1934, these actions served to shift the image of the editorial worker as a "professional" to one as an average citizen. another strike from the year 1934 was the strike at the macaulay company, reportedly the first ever strike to occur at a publishing firm. at the conclusion of the second macaulay strike, which occurred three months after the first, the nationwide drive towards unionization had entered the publishing industry and was "sweeping through all the major publishing houses". as these events seemed to have the secondary result of lowering the status of editors across the various publishing fields, it could be said that they sparked the decline of copyeditors that can be seen across the publishing fields today.