Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-08
UNION
IS DEFIEO BY
OPEN SHOP ORDER
General President of 0rganiza"
ton Will Attempt Settlement OF
Trouble at Kruger Auditorium.

Following the declaration of open
shop on the part of the management
of Kruger Auditorium, T. ]. Sullivan.
general president of the Walters
Union. of Hartford, Conn, will arrive
in Newark today and a meeting will
be held at the headquarters of the
Walters Union at so Academy street
to consider the situation n he case
of the auditorium.
Two exceptional entertainments we're
held at the auditorium leading up to
the situation which prevails today with
the walters. One of these was the big
banquet of the letter-carriers and post
office clerks on Memorial Day, and the
other was the feeding of a host of
Shriners last night. The service rem
dered by the walters on Decoration
Day was unsatisfactory alike to the
management of the auditorium and the
le~tter-carriers' organization. Leon
Stears said that tableware had been
stolen and made other complaints, in
GLIDING impertinence, ineficiency and
CdT6leSSfeSS OIL LHc part VI thC WoisSAS'
who were supplied through the local
union. Then there was a movement
started towards the declaration of open
shop on the part of the Hall and Park
Managers Association.
A. J. Cossolino, business agent of the
union, admits that the complaints of
Mr.. Stears may be all true, but in de-
tense states that the men complained
- ~.1ra froy, tha Canapa club in NpW
York, a kindred Blu not affiliated union.
He says that it was on the suggestion
of Mr.. Stears that he went there for
help on a day hat taxed the full
capacity of the union in all parts Of the
State.
Cossolino says that the business re-
lations of the union have always been
unsatisfactory with the Kruger Audi
forum owing to Mr.. Stears and Mr..
Lederer being too particular with re-
gard to the walters supplied and show
ing a race prejudice against some of
those from New York who were called
in to assist in al emergency.
Since Memorial Day there has been
trouble brewing, and last nights big
entertainment at the Auditorium was
looked forward to by the local union,
which sent representatives to New
York to apply for work in order to
forestall any efforts of the management
of the Auditorium from employing men
there. They did, and forty men who
were employed were at the last mo-
ment induced t. withdraw and fail to
report for duty. At the last minute
Louis V. Aronson went to the local
union and employed the necessary help
to make the banquet a success.
Plates were set for 5000 n the &C
c~ommodations OF the Auditorium were
taxed to the limit. The large dining
room was too small, so tables were set
in the patrol room of Salaam Temple,
the front restaurant and the garden.
1t was intended hat mattresses should
serve ice cream and coffee, but Mr..
Aronson objected and filled their places
with men.
The Kruger management when seen
today said that they were standing pat
and would insist on selecting the men
they required for service. They said
that they had sent word to the union
headquarters that men were required
for last night and that they would be
employed on application, but hat a
personal arrangement would have to be
made instead of through the union
business agent.