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union conditions.
A statement issued by the commit.
tee said:
"In number of places the unions
have succeeded in inducing the schools
to discontinue the use of TIME. A
particularly good job was done in
Hudson, New York, where, after some
agitation against the magazine it was
discontinued as an adjunct to the ma
terial used in classes.
News Articles Are Misleading
"Many trade union leaders, inter-
ested in educational work, have point
ed out that the material printed in
TIME is unsatisfactory, because mis-
leading. A prominent San Francisco
labor official observed in letter to
the Chicago committee that some in
structors are too mentally lazy to at
tempt to analyze current news and
relate it to history in the making so
they resort to the canned wisdom
that fills the pages Of the anti-union
periodicals that roll off the Donnelley
presses. Furthermore, the news is
interpreted in such a cynical and flip
pant way that students are bound to
become sceptical of democratic insti-
tutions and look with favor upon fas-
cist or other totalitarian form Of gov
ernment'
"No responsible schol board would
dare endorse such publication for
use in public schools, but certain prin-
cipals and heads of departments in
schools have been induced to use that
undesirable publication.
School Heads Urged to Discontinue
Time
"The Organization Committee of the
Chicago Printing Trades Unions has
issued a special appeal to all labor to
combat the use of that publication in
lall schools and suggests that parents
urge their children to refuse to par
ticipate in classes that use TIME as
q text. In case some schools refuse to
discontinue the use of TIME it is
necessary to launch campaign to re-
move department heads responsible for
the continued use of that periodical.
Text books and other material used in
connection with classes should be of
|unquestioned education value and not
propaganda organs for big business"
| Time Official islanders" Printing
Trades
/ The Chicago Committee also states
that "Mr. N. l.. Wallace, production
manager for TIME, Inc, is sending
circular letters containing ISLANDERS
against the printing trades unions to
people who have refused to renew
their subscriptions to TIME and
LIFE"
In detailing the anti-union activi-
ties of Mr.. Wallace, the Organization
COMMITTEE said:
| "Mr. Wallace tries to create the i'm
preston that the campaign against
the Donnelley enterprises has resolved
itself into campaign merely against
TIME, Inc. Anyone who has partici-
pated in the anti-Donnelley campaign
knows that the greater stress is laid
upon that part of the drive that has
to do with diverting telephone direc-
tories from the 'Donnelley concern to
union printing Offices. They know
Furthermore that equally as much en-
phasis is placed upon the Sears &
Roebuck catalogue and ENCYCLO-
PAEDIA BRITANNICA, which has
been owned by Sears since 1927.
| Deceptive Statements Made
with an air of innocence Mr.. Wal
lace tries to mslead his former sub
scribers by telling them that: TIME,
Inc, is being accused of anti-labor ac-
tivties, even though TINE, Inc. en-
ploys none Of the typographers, press
men or affiliated crafts The fact is
that TIME, Inc. pays millions of dol
lars yearly to the anti-union Donnelley
concern for the printing of TIME and
LIFE when there are scores of union
printing Offices operating under Amer
ican conditions that can do the jobs
better and at no greater cost.
| Offices of Time and Life Are In
DOnnelley's Plant
"TIME, Inc. is very careful not to
reveal for further fact that Mr.. Wal
lace's office as well as all Chicago Of
fees of TIME Inc. are in the Donnelley
building-and it is not an office build
ing either, but special arrangements
are made for the convenience of TIME
and LIFE. That fact alone proves
that the connection between TIME
Inc. and the Donnelley outfit is much
more than a mere arrangement be-
tween publisher and printer. Behind
the attacks made against the unions
by TIME Inc. is the sinister Donnelley
management carrying out, as usual,
it's traditional policy of enmity toward
all labor. Hence it is not difficult for
every union man and woman and
every friend of labor and defender of
American standards of life. and work
to understand that the campaign
against TIME and LIFE is an integral
part of the drive against Donnelley
and the whole open shop crew of the
Middle-West."
Local Union No. 81