The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21
BARBER vs.. The SAME.
ANNUAL EAST SIDE STRIKE WITH
1906 VARIATIONS.


Organizer Solves Complex Problem.
That odd, many tonsued little world that
keeps so jealously to itself just east Of the
bright lights Of the Bowery and north of
the great bridge is In q great pother. The
annual strike OF the journeymen BARRIERS
has again set in. Worse, it is scheduled to
begin to-day with unprecedented severity.
The Eyes Of the orthodox now will be de-
lighted at the sight Of many backsliders
from the faith Of their fathers now con-
strained to obey that injunction that COM
mands the faithful to trim not the corners
OF their boards.
Ike Kinder. whom his very elegant Gus
TONERS all along Grand street, the East
Side Fifth avenue, rom Lorber's to his
Palace Tonsorisl Parlors. near Clinton, all
call the King Of the BARRIERS, thinks that the
trouble was brought on this year because
he had to discharge Sol Gold erg. His
many aristocratic customers complained
that Sol betrayed apparent indications Of
an o~verfondness for raw garlic.
But according TO S~almanowitz, the BUSH
ness agent Of the J~ourneymen BARRIERS
Union OF the East Side, the smbuIatory
fragrance named Goldberg was not he
cause, but only the provoking incid ent, Of
the struggle. Salmanowitz's union was
organized, "a few weeks g by the United
Hebrew Trades, a sort of C. F. L. of the
East Side. and backed by one Of the more
prominent Hebrew papers.
1t started by reducing the hours Of the
BARRIERS from sixteen to thirteen and by
pushing up their wages from ST. Il week TO
the present union scale OF s., $40 and el2.
About a hundred OF the best shops we're
won over, the union declaring a strike
against three shops at a time and making
such a dent in their business with attacks
in the paper and boycott cards in the street
that they found it profitable TO give in.
The employers organized, too, however.
A few DAYS ago they discovered that there
was a Gentle BARRIERS union uptown which
would supply them with union BARRIERS who
would work at much more favorable terms
for them than the Hebrew artists. This
was the local union of the International
BARRIERS organization.
When Rind, who belonged 10 the bosses
association, made up his mind a little while
ago that Goldberg and his garlic were driv-
ing away too many of his most elegant cus-
toners, he fired him. Goldberg's brother,
one Of his best men,, went out. too, saying,
Garlic OF no garlic, he is my brother"
Kinder went 70 the Gentle org anizer, an
Italian named Piria md told him that he
needed two men, and wouldn't take them
from the other union. Piria, who had been
doing very little in the union labor line for
some time, slowly woke up 20 the situation
and, according to the members Of the Hebrew
organization, told Rinder that he could have
all the union men he wanted.
He then took BARRIERS from the Fast Side,
it is declared, initiated them into his union,
collecting a fee by the way, and sent them
down to Kinder wiki union cards in their
pockets.
The Hebrew union. which had immedi-
ately received the two Goldbergs into it's
bosom. Immediately declared the shop a
scab shop. Attacks Upon il began in the
Jewish daily Rinders patrons many of
them elegant only by night and working
men by day, saw the word scab and Kinder
custom began to fall on.
What made Ike ssdder than anything
else, though, was an article in the Jewish
paper asserting that his son, the apple OF his
eve, who will enter New York University
next fall, had already been hauled up by the
faculty Of the university and fired out for
having led an attack on a parade OF the
striking BARRIERS. 49,,
The Hebrew union saw that its danger did
not stop with that OF losing FINDERS shop
for good. The other bosses who gave
in to the union were getting envious OF the
ease with which Kinder supplied his estaD-
lishTnent with union men. They were
anxious themselves TO drop. the East side
variety of union barber and supplant HIM
with members Of the Gentle organization
More than that, a few Of the shops in the
bosses association who have not been con-
auered by the Hebrew union as yet have
made arrangements with the Gentle bust
ness agent to unionize their men through
the easy way OF making them pay Pirla
the union fees. Piria likes this, And the
bosses like IL. as IL promises TO afford them
an easy way of fighting the spread OF the
home grown fire with foreign flames.
To-day the signs 81 the uptown union
will be distributed and hung in some half
a dozen shops. labelling them as union
shops. The moment these appear re,
solved the Hebrew union at a meeting held
AZ ] n East Broadway last night. their union
will go out Of the hundred d shops of the
employer association that they control
and out of all the shops. of course, IN or
out OF the bosses association which employ
the new union labor.
They threaten to take the matter up 10
the G.. r. T., with which they have an UNDER
standing. In the meantime they intend
to make il az interesting as possible through
the pa per. the boycott and through what
ever other means are handy, not only Tor
the bosses who are expected To NJ the
places OF the strikers al once with the men
from uptown but for tho rival unionists
themselves.