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The Union Times
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Montgomery Ward & Co. sues United Retail Wholesale & Dept. Store Employees union and members for $1.3M in federal court in Kansas City over libelous leaflets distributed during employee organizing drive, damaging company reputation. Union calls it an attempt to stifle press freedom.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.(FP)— Montgomery Ward & Co. has filed a $1,300,000 libel suit in federal court here against the United Retail Wholesale & Dept. Store Employees, the Kansas City local of the union and more than a score of members and officers.
Edwin Chevlin, union spokesman, called the suit "another attempt by Sewell Avery to stifle the freedom of the press" and charged that the mail order company was "trying to keep the CIO from printing the truth."
Ward's suit complains that statements in union leaflets distributed during a drive to organize employees of its mail order plant and retail store in Kansas City damaged its goodwill and reputation.
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Montgomery Ward & Co. files a $1,300,000 libel suit against a union and its members for statements in leaflets distributed during an organizing drive, which allegedly damaged the company's reputation. Union spokesman Edwin Chevlin accuses Sewell Avery of trying to stifle press freedom and prevent the CIO from printing the truth.