Born in 1918 in Chicago and beginning his career in lithography as a dot etcher, William A. Schroeder became a member of Local 4 of the ALA in 1942. Schroeder describes the local union during the period of the forties and fifties and describes the…
This interview takes place in two parts.In Part I of the interview Theodore Meyers recall s joining the ALA at age nineteen as a feeder, his time in the Navy in the Second World War, and his return to work as a feeder and how he became active in the…
This interview with Ted Brandt describes his lifetime of union involvement. The interview recalls Brandt's early Local One union involvement working as a journeyman lithographer. Brandt’s active role in union negotiations, his positions as…
Roy Turner was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1917 and began his career in lithography during the depression years. The Second World War and his active service in the Air Force interrupted his career temporarily. In 1956 Turner was elected full-time…
Richard Clarke began his lithographic career in Montreal and joined the Lithographers union in 1941. By 1949 he was president of his local. In 1957 he was appointed International Representative and became vice-president in 1964. Clarke describes the…
This interview takes place in two parts. In part I Williams discusses how he came from a family that believed deeply in the labor movement, losing his job in the lithographic trade on numerous occasions for organizing activity, and how he began his…
Mel Galbraith’s introduction to the lithography trade began in the Navy in 1946 and later in 1952 training young people in a sub-tender print shop. Out of the service Galbraith served as an apprentice on a multilith press in Minneapolis, joined…
Max Levine grew up in South Philadelphia and started working in the printing trade at age seventeen, this led to an apprenticeship and membership in the Bookbinders Union in 1951. In this interview Levine discusses organizing the Curtis Publishing…
This interview was conducted in two parts. Part I explores how Martin Grayson was introduced to unionism by his father, a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Grayson joined the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, Local One in 1936 as a…
Leon Wickersham began his career in Lithography working for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1948 he moved to Racine, Wisconsin, to work for Western Publishing Company as a stripper in the lithography department. His first experience in…