Complaint: Mary Jane Rachner, a candidate in the 1972 elections for St. Paul School Board, complained that the newspaper was unfair and discriminatory when it refused to accept her paid political advertisement. The Union Advocate is a weekly serving primarily organized labor in the greater St. Paul area. Rachner was not a labor-endorsed candidate and did not claim to be in her ad.

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Ernest A. Lindstrom, state representative and House majority leader, complained that the newspaper was inaccurate and defamatory to him in two stories it published about alleged influence buying at the State Legislature. He claimed the paper failed to make a reasonable effort to verify the accuracy of the two stories it ran in consecutive issues. The Union Advocate is a weekly paper serving primarily organized labor in the greater St. Paul area.

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