SCANLAN'S ISSUES DELAYED BY UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300070009-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 3, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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SCA1dl1AN'S ISSUE
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Workers Terin Magazine's
Contents 'Un-American'
By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY
,A group of lithographers at a
printing plant here, who oh-
Jected to processing the maga-
zine Scanlan's Monthly because
they found its contents "un-
American" and "extremely rad-
ical" yesterday forced a delay
in publication of the periodical.
The, workers, members of
Local 1 of the Amalgamated
Lithographers of America, were
preparing for printing on Sun-
day night an issue of Scanlan's
devoted to the radical under-
ground in the United States.
They sent their shop steward
to the management of Barnes
Press, Inc., 233 Spring Street,
to voice their opposition to its
contents.
To avoid conflict with the
workers, the management
stopped work on the issue and
sent it back to Scanlan's editors
Sidney E. Zion, an editor of
the eight-month-old magazine
devoted to investigative report-
ing, said yesterday that the *ac-
tion was "paranoid". and a vio-
lation of the First Amendment
respecting freedom of the press.
He sought an injunction in Fed-
eral Court to force the Barnes
company to print the issue.
"The assertion they make is
so. brazen-that they have the
right to say what's printed in
this country," Mr. Zion said in
a news conference at his office,
143 West 44th Street.
Actually, Hugh Barnes, the
president of the 54-year-old
printing concern, had offered
yesterday to take back The re-
jected work and have it
printed. He reached the deci-
sion after consultation with Ed-
ward Swayduck, president of
the lithographers' union, who
said his men were acting im-
properly in delaying the work.
Scanlan's, however, declined
the new Barnes offer. Mr. Zion
said the financial terms offered
were not the same as those
agreed to before the dispute.
He said also the company would
not give him -a performance
bond. Lawrence Eisenger, a vice
president of. the Barnes com-
pany, said Mr. Zion had been
unwilling to make a down pay-
ment of $10,000 on the printing
bill.
Mr. Zion, who is also a law-
yer, obtained a show cause
order from Federal District
Judge Inzer B. Wyatt last eve-
ning against- the Barnes com-
pany and. the lithographers'
union, There is to be a hearing
Tuesday on whether an injunc-
tion will be issued to force the:
printing of the rejected ma-
terial. William M. Kunstler, thel
radical lawyer, helped Mr. Zion
prepare the complaint.
Scanlan's. began publication
in March. Mr. Zion said its re-
cent circulation, had been "90,-
000 or 100,000," of which 20,-
000 were paid subscriptions.
The editors have been pre-
paring the 116-page November
issue on the underground for
six months. Among its contents
are articles on the Weather-
men, interviews with guerrillas
and a 32-page section docu-
menting 1,500. instances of.
bombings, sabotage and terror-
ism by the underground in the
last five years.
Wally Houghton, the shop!
steward. at Barnes, said about
20 men had come to him ori-
Eunday to complain about the
issue. ,They felt it was un-
American, extremely radical
and detrimental to the inter-
ests of the country," he said. -
This was the. first issue of
Scanlan's that Barnes had
agreed to print. The magazine
parted with its first printer, a
California company, in a dis-
pute over deadlines. _ .'
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