Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-04
BAKERS JOIN STRIKE
Ninety Bread Makers Recruited for 0maha's
Army Of the Unemployed
RECOGNITION or UNION THE ISSUE
Their Employers Willing to 0onoede All
the Other Demands,
GENERAL LINES REMAIN UNBR0kEN
Neither Side Weakens, but Employers May
Act Wednesday.
ENERAL LINES REMAIN UNBRoKEN
WATERS HAVE \ SERVICE SUNDAY
Ernest Hodges Conducts Religious
Meeting for HIS Fellow strikers
mt Their Headquarters on
FHrnHm street.

Pursuant to plans adopted Saturday n.gnt
at their meeting in Labor temple, the sew
enty union bakers OF the city and about
twenty nonunion ment went on strike yes
terday. Their demands were for the rccOg-
milton of their union, involving a reduction
in time of from eleven to ten hours and
slight Increases In pay in some cases. About
ten of the largest bakeries are affected
These are the latest accessions to tho
strikers ranks, now numbering quite 2,t0O.
and embracing Union Pacific shopmen,
teamsters restaurant and cafe employees
carpenters and hodcarriers. For the nexi
recruits, eyes turn to the freight package
handlers. whose case has reached a critical
period.
Only the One Contention.
One of the proprletors Of leading bakery
said yesterday that he and other proprietors
we're willing TO accede TO all demands made
by the workmen except the one of signing
the scale and thus formally recognizing the
union Thus this fight is but a counterpart
of every other one between employe and
employer in the city-on the one question
OF unionism. The employees assert their
strongest determination TO stay out until
their unions are recognized by the recently
organized alliance Of business men. and the
latter are just as determined that they will
not accord such recognition. II seems 70
be but part Of the fight that is being made
in Kansas City and other places where
business men have banded themselves to-
gether TO resist unions.
prominent baker said he thought the
shops would merely look out for their re-
tail trade the best they could and not try
to care for their wholesale patronage while
the strike continues
All Forces stiII Intact.
No breaks have occurred In the ranks Of
any Of the striking bodies nor the employers
as yet Nor have the employers in any
instances thus far undertaken to reopen
| their lines OF business that were choked
by The strike. SThstantiAyT rr7cvts are
made, however, that some ef6rts have been
exerted to bring nonunion restaurant
workers into the city TO hll the places OF
the strikers. gentleman who has just
returned from st. Louis says Omaha res
| taurant men are advertising for men there
and similar reports are made with regard
to other cities But none of the twenty
! eight restaurants closed by the strike has
been opened, An effort was made by the
Business Mems association TO buy the Den
yer restaurant at 606 North Sixteenth
street. owned by Gus F. David one OF the
! four restaurants that signed the union
| scale and kept on doing business. The
union men assert their willingness to see
the sale made, but IT has not yet been ac-
| complished,
No Move Until wednesday.
! It appears reasonably certain that moth
/ ing will be done by the employers in the
way Of settling difficulties or resuming the
! full volume OF their business until Wednes-
day morning at least, after the city election
! In fact, some OF them have said as much
! The jobbers and wholesalers, transfer and
! coal men, who are probably the most af-
/ fected by the teamsters strike, and the
restaurant men by the walters, cooks and
! bartenders' strike, seem to have certain
we'll defined plans OF their own which they
may seek to execute at that time. As far
as can be learned from the strikers and
| the employers no efforts have been made
| to bring teamsters in to take the places Of
the strikers, as is said to have been done
in the case OF the restaurant and cafe
! workers.
Hotels Have Troubles.
The teamsters' strike. which has been
the cause OF depicting coal supplies in all
| parts OF the city, has now extended it's In
fuence into a new channel # has made
| II exceedingly hard for some of the hotels
| to get their guests baggage delivered to
and from the depots.
| The teamsters and restaurant workers
held meetings yesterday at their respective
headquarters. The restaurant and cafe men
converted theirs into religious meeting,
one OF their own number, Earnest Hodges,
formerly at work for the One Minute res
taurant, having charge OF the services Mr..
Hodges who has some experience in evan =
gelicai and mission work, made an address
Of forty FIVE minutes, speaking from Jere-
miah 6:16: Thus saith the Lord. stand
ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths. where Is the good way, and
| y,alk tberein and We shall And rest for