The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-28
OTHER UNIONS
AID STRIKERS
Laundry Workers Gain Support
of BARRIERS and Bartenders
in Their Fight.
& EXPECT ASSISTANCE OF
ALL ORGANIZED LABOR
Laundry Managers Report Con-
ditiOns Favorable, and De-
clare Strike Must Fail.

One new phase OF the laundry work
rrs' fight for recognition of the right Ia
organize and sim retain their positions
in the various laundIics uf the city de-
Vciopcd Monday. This. WAS expected
was the action taken Monday as the
result OF an executive meeting held sun
day, al which the question of usinG the
boycott was broachcd and virtually de-
cidcd upon.
Yesterday the proprictors of nearly all
barber shops and saloons whose places
OF business display the union card, wcre
requested To send no more lintn To any
Laundry which had refused officially 10
recognize the union, and this means that
;hey were asked To send no work 10 any
laundry OF the city rs none OF them
has yet shown any signs OF recedinE
from tho stand thcy took for the open
shop when the question OF organization
WAS raised more than two weeks ago.
May Involve Other Unions,
II was stated by some of the union
leaders last night that this fight on be
half Of the laundry workers would prob,
ably be taken up by the executive board
OF every union In the city. although no
official declaration as 10 Just how and
when this would hc undertaken could
he obtained.
Aside from The BARRIERS and barIend-
ers, others that arc or may become in
voVed are the cooks and walters. who
tenders, and next most intimately con.
ncctcd are The butchers and sroccrs'
union employees.
While no official order has so far bceu
issued relating to union men in general,
in several Of the speeches that have been
made nj mass meetings held In Fedora
ton of Labor hall, a fergcnt appeal has
been made 10 every union man and wom
present 10 send no work 10 any OF
the city laundries pending the. settle
ment OF the existing trouble How far
hi has hnrn n a.
is a question not set determined.
Many Union Men Respond.
When the request was made Monday
10 the union BARRIERS and bartenders and
The proprietors Of the places where these
are employed to discontinue sending linen
TO tho laundrics the response vas gem
cral, but by no means unanimous.
Careful investigation OF nearly fifty
places in the heart Of tho city last night
showed that in so per cens Of the union
barber shops tho sending out OF linen
he'd been discontinued. and in the sa-
looms about threc~fourths Of the bar
tenders were working without their
white Jackets. using either black sateen
coats, smoking Jackets or else content
with shiT;sleeves and apron.
In the shoDs that the radical action OF
discarding the linen usually worn had
been taken. both proprietors and help
were firm and outspoken in expressing
their sympathy with the cause OF the
laundry workers.
''Xyc will take our towels and aprons
home and have oIr wives wash them or
wash them ourselves, was statement
frequently heard.
Proprie,ors of other places where the
union card was displayed. doubted the
right OF the laundry workers TO demand
the boycott and were equally emphatic
IN their statements that they would sub
nit To no dictation.
View of Lsundry Manager.
Virtually all OF the barber shops, bar
and restaurant linen of the city is owned
and furnished by the American Linen
Supply company, whose local manager,
George Steiner. said last night;
I'VE will never let a Ittle thing like
this cause us to give up the dght. but
small loss of business that we have 80
far suffered is a help TO us AT the pres
cnt time, as II enables us TO catch up
quickly with the WORK that we had been
delayed upon. We have taken good care
of all our customers and they know II
! believe the few who have left us Will
soon come back when they find their de-
nands cannot be elsewhere supplied.
Reports from the other laundries of
the city are TO the effect that everything
is running smoothly and that they have
ample force TO care for their regular busi-
ness.
At no time during the day was there
violence or disturbance AT any of the
plants. although all OF them were sur
rounded by pickets from the strikers
ranks during the noon hour and for AN
hour during the late afternoon.
Strikers Hold Meeting.
The strikers held meeting i'm Fede-
ration hall Yesterday afternoon. attended
by about 200 OF their number This scs-
sion was secret and behind locked doors
but at it's close Secretary knerr issued
a statement in which he said.
Tho strikers arc confident and have
every reason to believe that they Will
win. We are adding now members Ia
our ranks every day- Our comrades are
not resorting 10 violence and do not In
tend la do so. We want the right TO or
ganize. The parade next Saturday prom
ises 10 be one OF the largest Jlemonstra
tlon parades ever held in Salt Lake. VIC
have the assurance OF all the different la
bor organizations that they will he able
To have almost every member OF thci,
unions In the parade. We arc very thank
ful to the public for tho assistance they
have given us