Montana labor news., 1938-06-09
LABOR MOVING TO
UNIONIzE PRODUCTS
OF D0NNELLEY co.
Workers and Friends Refusing
TO Buy Time and Life and
Other Printing Turned Out at
Big Chicago Plant.

CHICAGO, m-A month ago few
union men and women knew that
TIME and LIFE, two periodicals that
have gained large circulations
through spectacular publicity, were
produced in the big Chicago printing
concern of R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Company, sometimes known as the
Lakeside Press. But now hundreds
of thousands Of union members
know it and soon millions will know
it. This came about because the
whole Chicago labor movement is
pledged to carry on a relentless
struggle against that ancient citadel
of the open shop. And Chicago
labor, as we'll as all working people
in the country, has good reason to
combat the Donnelley concern, be-
cause that outfit has for years been
the s%pearhead of every attack upon
the organized labor movement.
It was T. E. Donnelley, head of
that concern, who was chairman of
the infamous Citizens Committee to
Enforce the Lands Award" That
committee used every means OF
publicity that money could buy to
defame organized labor in Chicago
and throughout the country. It had
on its payroll hired thugs and gun
men who terrorized contractors in
the building industry who tried to
deal with unions. The worst suffer
ers at the hands of that committee
were the building trades unions
Donnelley was not satisfied with
running his own establishment under
anti-union conditions; he conspireo
with others to try to wreck labor
organization in every industry. L
was only after seven years of fright.
fulness, occasionally punctuated by
outright terror drives against unior
men and women, that the Chicago
Carpenters District Council secured
legal relief, through a decision by
the Supreme Court of Illinois de
claring the Citizens Committee" tt
be an unlawful association"
Although unable, after that de
%cision, to carry on openly its anti
union violence, the malevolent spiri
that motivated the Citizens Com
mittee" manifested itself in variou
forms. This was especially the cas-,
in every attempt Of the organizes
workers of Illinois to obtain favor
able labor legislation. In ever.
struggle on any front labor wa
always face to face with the Don
nelley menace, until the very nam
"Donnelley'' became the symbol 0
industrial tyranny.
This concern was equally ruthles
with competitors. Backed by mil
lions Of dollars, Boosting that it j
the largest privately owned printin
concern on earth, Donnelley's woul
sacrifice some profits in order t
ruin a competitor by taking ava
his work. The terrific speed-up sys
tenn enabled that outfit to indulg
in cutthroat competition.
For years the printing trade
unions have grappled with this cha
lenge. Finally, after careful plar
ming, it was realized that such a
establishment could be conquere
only through the common action {
the toiling people Of the countr
acting against the products of tn
! Donnelley concern.
The drive was launched more tina
a month ago by Chicago Typograph
cal Union No. 16 and soon all til
other unions of the Allied Printir
Trades-pressmen, feeders, pilot,
engravers, bookbinders, etc.-ei
dorsed the plan and plunged I'M
: the campaign. The Chicago Feeders
| ton of Labor unanimously and Ell
Enthusiastically endorsed the drive ar
pledged all its facilities, includir
the powerful labor radio static
VIGIL, over which appeals r reg