Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-10
ORGANIZER ENDS
UNION DISPUTE
National Officer Orders Press
er Back to Work in Ber-
gamo Shop.

The differences between the Car
ment Workers Union, Local POS, and
L. Bergamo, a merchant tailor, of 81
Market street. have been settled for
the time being by Barney Abrams
general organizer of the national
body in New York. Abrams came TO
this city last night and ordered Mich
ael Mason of 1876 South Sixth street.
to go back to work in Bergamo's
shop, The trouble started about two
weeks ago when Bergamo was in
need of an expert presser He had
already discharged two others, whose
work he claimed was unsatisfactory.
He heard that Mason was in need
of work and hired him without con-
sulting the union. Mason is said to
be union man of good standing in
his local. Mason Went 70 work, and
when Abraham Stiglit7. business
agent for the Garment Workers
Union, heard of it ne called out the
men working in Bergamos shop.
Stiglitz's explanation of his action
Is that Mason did not procure a
permission card from the union be-
fore going to work in the shop
The matter wa" taken up by the
arbitration committee of the union
and it was decided that Mason should
continue TO work at Bergamo's place.
In spite of this decision Stiglitz is
aaid to have called the men from
their work in that shop. At the last
meeting of the Essex Trades Council.
Stiglitz and the members of the Car
ment Workers Union were severely
scored by the members of the Council
fir their actions in this matter. At
the meeting Secretary Hilfers stated
that he had called Mr.. Abrams from
New York and in the meantime had
ordered the men back to work on Fri
day. Stiglitz stated that he had been
ordered by local POS to call the men
out again last Saturday. The men
were not called out, however, and are
still at work.
Stiglitz announced at the Council
meeting last Friday that the local
had suspended the man. After the
meeting he said the man had pressed
coats for Bergamo a forty cents
apiece, whereas the union scale is
ofrty-five cents. This Bergamo de-
MES.
Mason appeared al work in Ber-
gamo's place today.
Mason in making a statement of his
side of the trouble stated that he vas
brought before Local Union No 205
on Friday night and told that unless
he took his tools away from Ber-
samo's shop on Saturday morning
and quit work he would be fined $25,
but if he continued at work there he
would be expelled from the union and
then could get no work in union shops
in this district. He claimed that he
was given no opportunity to even
summon his employer to defend him
self, although the constitution and by
laws of the union, he said, provide
that when charges are brought the ac-
cused must be given a months notice
before he can be fined or the charge
pressed to a conclusion. lie charged
that last week Stiglitz offered to pay
him so if he would quit the job as
he, Stiglitz, said he had another man
for it,
Mr. Bergamo said that he engaged
Mason because he was good work
man and also for the season that he
was a union man. It is said that
there were about twenty men after
the job and that the trouble started
because Bergamo did not take a man
picked by the union.
Mr.. Bergamo denied that Mason had
worked below the scale saying that
he got the following prices for press
ing which are according to the scale,
Sack coat, 40 cents; overcoat, 80 cents;
Tuxedo, full dress and Prince Albert
each, rs cents and GETAWAY 80 cents.
Mason has appealed to the ma
tional body to see whether or not the
fine imposed by the local 205 holds
good. If the national body upholds
the decision of local 205 it is rumored
that they will place another man in
Mason's position in Bergamo's shop.