Montana labor news., 1938-06-09

larly made to the working people
not to support Donnelley products
and to Donnelley employees to JOIN
the printing trades unions. Immedi-
ately after the action of the Chicago
Federation of Labor similar action
was taken by the Carpenters Dis
triet Council, the Painters District
Council and the Metal Trades Dis
trict Council. Scores of local unions
have taken similar action.
Letters were sent to all local typo
graphical unions and to all Allied
Printing Trades Councils in the
United States and Canada and the
members of these unions were urged
to appeal to all other unions in their
territory to refrain from patronizing
Donnelley products.
At the same time a representative
Of the Chicago printing trades unions
was sent East to personally visit the
important labor organizations in the
larger cities in order to spur action.
The printing trades in New York,
the building trades, the hotel and
restaurant workers, garment work
ers have pledged action in support
of the drive. In Philadelphia the
Building Trades Council pledged its
facilities to aid in the work. The
big typographical union of the Dis
trict of Columbia, which embraces
the employees in the composing
rooms of the government printing
office, is going to lead the campaign
among the other unions in the ma
TONS capital.
The Donnelley concern turns out
an enormous volume of printing, in
Guiding such periodicals as Time,
Life, Current History, Rising Tide,
Science Digest, Farm Journal, Hunt
ing and Fishing, Youth Catholic
Messenger, many children's Sunday
school publications. 1t also prints
catalogues for Sears-Roebuck and
Montgomery Ward, besides tele-
phone directories for many of the
largest cities Of the country, among
which are Manhattan and Brooklyn
classified; all the Chicago direc-
tories; directories for Detroit, Cleve-
land, Indianapolis, Columbus, St
Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt
Lake City, and innumerable smaller
places. In many places union mer
and women refuse to use the direc.
tories, and when they want a tele.
phone number they call 'informa.
ton" stating that they will not USE
the directory for calling phone mum
bers until such time as it is printed
under union conditions.
Tens of thousands of union mel
and women who subscribed to sucl
publications as Time and Life no
only refuse to renew their subscrip
tons but many of them use the post
paid return business envelopes 0
these concerns to let the publisher
know why they refuse to renew
subscriptions.
Every day sees thousands of NOR
organized workers and their friend
: rallying to this campaign. This grea
nationwide drive, combined witt
$ organizational efforts among Don
nelley employees, is bound to pro
5 duce results. Within a %reasonabl
time the situation will be such tina
| an election under the auspices of tn
} National Labor Relations Board ca
be held and then the Donnelley con
Germ will be compelled to recogniz
: that if it is to continue to do bushes
it must observe the right of its work
S ers to decent American condition.
And the union men and women c
America can be depended upon
/ reject any and all publications thu
are not printed under union cond.
f tons.
' Next issue this paper will publis
. a partial list of Donnelley product
in addition to the ones mentioned j
n the above article.)