The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-09-01

demand for them. The Wichita union
| inaugurated an active campaign,
starting with it's own membership but
rapidly extending its efforts to the
entire trade union movement Re-
suits were had almost at once and Mr..
Carr informs us that circulation of
| the magazines has been cut down to
point where few people buy them
and piles of "dead ones" now clutter
the newsstands.
A year ago the anti-union Donnel-
ley printing enterprises, variously
known as R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Company, The Lakeside Press and
The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation
was making every effort toward es-
tablishing national monopoly of di-
rectory, catalog and periodical print
ing. Over. period of years the DON
nelley concern had contrived to secure
control of many important telephone
directories. One jurisdiction after
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agents and telephone directories that
had been printed in local union shops
were removed to the anti-union Don
nelley plants.
Two big mail order catalogs also
were removed from union shops to
the Chicago Donnelley plant. Several
of the largest and widest circulated
periodicals were produced by the Don
nelley enterprises, as well as much
other printing, such as books, finan-
cial reports, house publications and
tourist literature.
But not today, thanks to organized
labors drive against this concern. A
years effort has almost brought to a
standstill Donnelley raids upon other
Jurisdictions; the attempt to monopo-
| lize certain classes of printing was
smashed before it reached compile
ton. This success, according to the
organization committee of Chicago
Printing Trades Unions, is due to the
splendid support received from the
labor movement of the United States
and Canada.
Such periodicals as Current His
! tory" and young Catholic Messen-
ger" have been removed from the
Donnelley plant and placed in union
offices-one in Dayton, Ohio, the other
in Springfield, Mass. Although ar
eastern edition of Life" is being
printed at the Cuneo plant in Phila-
delphia, major portion of the work
on that periodical is still done at the
Donnelley plant in Chicago, while al
work on "Time," publication owned
by the same company that publishe:
Life" is done by the Donnelley en-
terprises. Hence, both "Time" ant
Life" remain on the 1--WE don't pat
ronize list" of organized labor.
The st. Louis and Wichita expert
ences are only two of many example
of effective work and the fact tina
such activity is proceeding in score
of places throughout the country eX
plains how the Donnelley attempt t.
secure monopoly on certain classe
of printing has been broken. 1t ais
indicates that the anti-union Donnel
ley concern is definitely on the de
fensive and that the time is not ia
distant when all printing now bein,
produced under anti-union condition
at the Donnelley plants will be pro
. duced under union conditions. A con
: tinuation of the Donnelley drive is
guarantee of success against one 0
the most relentless enemies of labo
in the country.
Scores of telephone directories for
merly printed by the Donnelley plant
are now produced in local jurisdic
J tions under union conditions and il
all the larger cities still having Don
nelley directories there exist specia
committees of the printing trade
unions that are working to have sucl
directories produced under union con
dtiions.