In this interview Arthur Brown recounts his early years as a lithographic artist for Stone Limited in Toronto Canada. Brown also recalls his election to numerous offices at the local level, and his twenty-year role as the international vice-president…
Ben Robinson Grew up in Springfield MA, and arrived in New York City in the summer of 1929 immediately after graduating from the Yale Law School. He found employment with Manfred W. Ehrich, counsel to the United States Printing and Lithographic…
William (Bill) Hall left school after the eighth grade and in 1925 became an apprentice to the photoengraving trade in a non-union shop. Having become a journeyman in 1930, Hall became active in efforts to organize Chicago Local 5 of the…
Dan Streeter started in the engraving business in 1930 and joined Chicago Local 5 of the Photoengravers Union in 1936. He gives the reasons for the organization of his own particular shop and describes the organizing campaign that took place under…
This interview takes place in three parts. Part I discusses Stone’s early years in Wisconsin, attending the University of Wisconsin, and working as a stripper in a Lithography shop. In 1940 Stone became recording secretary of his local union in the…
In this interview T. Earl Kinney recalls how he obtained his first job as a delivery boy in the printing division of the Sun Publishing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kinney describes how he became a letter press apprentice, a member of the…
In this interview Edward Donahue describes his childhood in South Dakota and leaving in 1939 to join the Army Air Corps where he studied photography. Donahue recalls his experience in WWII and working in the freight service after the war. Donahue…
Edward Volz, President of the Photoengravers’ Union from 1929-1954, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was apprenticed to a wood engraver at the age of fifteen and joined the Photoengravers Union at twenty-one when it was still part of the…
Eugene Macellari moved to Boise, Idaho in 1950 and took his apprenticeship as a lithographer there. Macellari went to work in a mixed shop where just the litho department was ALA under Portland Local 36. Macellari describes the strike in 1957, which…
In this interview Gus Petrakis recalls quitting college to go to work for Western Printing during the depression. Petrakis worked his way up to apprentice pressman, became affiliated with the Milwaukee local of the ALA, and became the first recording…