Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-04

Claim
Issued by the Promoters Of
DuaIism Among the Bar
tenders
WANT TO WRECK
ORGANIZED LABOR
BY Spreading Idea That Some
Are of Better Clay Than
Others.

Union men are expressing the
opinion that it was very appro.
pirate in the seeding "unien'
bartenders to use the daily press
that recognized opponent of real
unionism, to propagate the mis-
leading information upon which
the imitation organization is
based. In Sundays papers there
appeared notices in which were
false claims that have made the
brotherhood" distasteful to
thinking union men, were repeat
ed, but toned down some SO as to
appear more acceptable to the I'M
thinking.
The claim is made that they
were working (under the B. I. Id
"under constitution made up by
cooks, walters, mattresses, colored
cooks, bar porters, colored walters,
etc. = The Appeal winds up
with :e'B. O. B. is strictly bartend-
ers, white exclusively. Let the
other crafts do the same. What
ever that means.
The notice published immediate
ly below complains against the
!" unprincipled" methods Of paid
hirelings," and wants to know if
'sthe Bartenders are to be Slaves
to the Culinary Workers? Most
emphatically, MOP Further on
the notice accuses the Trades As
sembly Calculation committee OF
degrading their Office by going
about in an endeayor to create dis
seniton and discord in our craft. :
Now it is the Brotherhood
that is creating the dissention and
discord. The bartenders of the
country were getting along har-
moniously with other hotel and
restaurant employees when some
"paid hirelings" began to sow
Misrepresentation in the hope OF
reaping a crop of dualism. And
the seed they sowed was false.
They have been claiming that the
bartenders in the organization
were outvoted and ruled by the
culinary workers, that Jere L. Sui
Ivan "got the money that they
chad to mix with negroes, Japs
and Cinnamon" and that 1.-THE
bartenders all over the country
were pulling away"
All of these assertions are I'M
true. The bartenders, instead OF
being outvoted by the culinary
workers, outvote them by four to
one. There are $1,000 bartenders
in the bona fide organization, out
Of a total of less than $4,000
There are So mixed locals, 80 wait.
ers locals, 8 of mattresses, IA OF
cooks and just six colored locals
with a total membership OF 376.
AND THERE ARE THREE HUN
DRIED AND. SEVENTY-THREE
LOCAL UNIONS OF WHITE
BARTENDERS. The members OF
colored locals have cards good for
their own locals only. There is
not a. Jap or Chinese in the entire
union. Another thing is that
white bartenders have organized
every colored local Of cooks and
porters that has been formed.
All that President Oerter of the
new "union" claims is four
sbrotherhoods' namely, at
Wheeling, Spokane, WASH, Tren-
ton, N. j., and McKeesport, Pa.
The total membership claimed is
less than one thousand, and at
each Of these four places the old
organization has locals in full
bloom, respectively Nos. 292, 485,
1874 and 1863. In no city. is the
brotherhood" recognized by the
central body as a union; 10 all clt-
les the B. I. L. organization is 50
regarded and has delegates seat
ed.
On the other hand, the B. /. u
has organized II new locals
during the past month, TEN OF
THEM BEING BARTENDERS
UNIONS. This is more than twice
as many in one month as the
sbrotherhood claims, after its
years of sewing Of discomfort.
Also, in the past month, the
bona fde organization has paid
out SO, $50 IN death benefits and
50. $50 81 in defense of its mem.
bers. This shows who gets ths
money, and, further than this
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