Josiah W. Gitt

Josiah William Gitt (March 28, 1884 – October 7, 1973) was an American newspaper editor known for editing The York Gazette and Daily.

[4] Gitt was a Pennsylvania delegate to the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, casting the state's sole vote for Samuel Huston Thompson.

[9] Under his editorship, the newspaper was likely "the only daily paper in the United States that consistently opposed postwar American foreign policy.

In 1961 he was one of 400 names on an advertisement in the New York Times, calling for the abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

[16] This followed several years of declining readership and a failed attempt by Gitt to implement a 10% pay cut for the newspaper's employees that led to a strike by the International Typographical Union Local.