The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-13
BARTENDERS MAKE PROTEST AGAINST
 UNFAIR PRACTICES
Claim Tradesinen who w. ork As Bartenders in Leisure
 Hours Are Cheating.

Plans and resolutions for a move ment to gain for the bartenders of the city a better scale of wages and shorter working hours were adopted at a meeting last night of Local No. 256 of the Bartenders' Unionsse Will liam B. Motz, who was recently chosen business agent of the unIon, Is taking an active interest in all it's affairs and in discussing the new rules he said today: sts s
 i've intend if possible to stop the practice of men working in factories and tending bar at night Men who work in factories or at some other employment during the day and then steal bartenders jobs at night are not good union labor men at heart. intend to put a stop to this practice or put each and every man convicted of violating the rules on the unfair list
 The new rules follow:
 1-The1 scale of wages for any man employed as a bartender within the limits of the City Of Bridgeport, shall be at the rate of three dollars per day and eighteen dollars per week Nine hours work shall constitute a fuIf days work, excluding Saturday.
 2-No4 member of this union, enn- ployed as a regular bartender within the city limits, shall follow out or. be employed at two crafts; nor shall. any member of this union employed as a barfender be allowed. to alternate be- tween two places of business owned by the same proprietor.
 3-No union man shall be employ ed as a regular bartender within the city limits, Shall follow out or be en- pIoyed at two crafts;~ nor shall any member of this union employed as a bartende be allowed to alternate between two places of business owned by the same proprietor.
 3-No union man shall be employ ed or work with any person as a bar tender who is not a member Of the union, after reasonable time and op- portunity has been given such non union person to affiliate with the un- | ion and he has failed to do so. 4-Thes scale of wages to be paid an extra man working as an extra bartender shall be five dollars per day.
 5-Any person never having been a bartender, who shall follow out the occupation of bartender, shall begin as an apprentice and the regular scale of wages of such apprentice shall be 1 of apprenticeship shall continue for a | period of one year from the begin
 ming of such services.
 6-AlI persons having travelling card of the Barte nders union, and To- eating in this city with intention of following the occupation of bartender.
  shall deposit said card with the secre- 1 tary of local No. 256 within three i days from the beginning of such ser
 vices. otherwise, he shall not be recog-
 nfzed as a lawful member of this un- l ion. ] All union bartenders upon 1eav-
 ing their employment, shall. remove
 from the place of business their union
 card.
 S-The business agent of the un- | ion shall investigate and report any | Einfraction of the foregoing rules or | regulations, and it shall be the boun- den duty of said business agent to rig | idly enforce all of the foregoing rules l e-Any person violating any Of the 1 foregoing rules or regulations shall be 1 punished as follows, to wit,s
 fine of five dollars for the first ] offence; A fine of twenty-five dollars 1 for the second offensei Any subse-
 ouent offense to the second offense 1 shall be punished by suspension from 1 enbership in the union.