New Britain herald., 1917-11-06
BUTCHERS GO OUT
 0N STRIKE ORDER
S,700 of Them Decide to Leave
 Markets for More Money

New York, Nov. 6.-Five thou sand men employed in retail butcher shops wept on strike yesterday, ac- cording to an announcement by Jo- sephs Levy, business agent of Local No. 108, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workingmen of Amer ica, who added that today the 3,700 affiliated workmen in the slaughter houses of the city would be called out on strike to enforce the demands of ., the retail men.
 By late afternoon MT. Levy said retail butchers employing 1,5OO men had acceded to the demands of the union and their men had returned to work. He said he expected 1000 more to return to their work this morning, their employers having met the demands of the union.
 The members of the United Master Butchers of America, the retail mar ket owners, including representatives from the Washington Heights, Bronx and east side and west branches, met last night and voted to grant all the demands of the strikers including week of sixty-three and half hours and a minimum wage scale of $22 week, but voted to refuse to grant
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 Will Call Out Other Butchers.
 When MT. Levy was informed of that fact he said the result would be to call out the slaughter house men today, so the retail dealers could get no meat to sell. He said he had as- surances that the slaughter house men would strike in sympathy.
 $fn u%~il i,o prices was reported in the shops yes- terday, and families in both boroughs managed to do their marketing with out any difficulty.
 Not only are the men striking for more wages and fewer hours, but, ac- cording to Mr. Levy, they have de- clared against continued selling of lambs liver for calves liver, chuck steak and trimmings for round steak and the substitution of rooster for fowl. These deceptions have been practiced in many butchers shops, said MT. Levy, and the purchaser has had to pay from nine to twenty cents more for the substitute. With the settlement of the strike these decep- tions will have to stop, he declared. I The master butchers deny that such deceptions have been practiced.
 The members of the union have been holding meetings for two days at the Labor Temple, No. 243 East Eightyfourth street. Henry Brassel | one of the delegates, stated that the nSen been trying for three years to get the dealers to accede to their de- | mands, which have been embodied in ! a lengthy agreement to be signed by both employer and employe when 3 settlement has been reached.
 The agreement signed by the em- ! ployers who yesterday took back t1eil 1 men, calls for a sixty-three and one i half hour week and minimum wage of $22 a week. Before calling ithi strike some of the men were working eighty-four hours week and beinl paid $16, they said.
 The strikers also carried their poin on being given holidays off and O getting full pay on those days and O getting a $6 a day wage on Saturda, for extra men who on other days re ceive $4.
 Another change demanded by tho butchers was to have the working hours of the first five days of the week start at seven o'clock in the morning and stop at six o'clock in the eve. ming, and the Saturday hours tc start at>-seven o'clock and stop al 1 seven.
 MT. Brassel said they would not in. 1 terfere in any way with the work o1 the government in handling food and that if any difficulties arose they would seek conference with the gov ernment authorities Retail dealers in Queens and Brook ci ment and the strike has been confined to Manhattan and the Bronx. No dis turbances were reported and the ] meetings were orderly
 A. F. Grimm, treasurer of the United Master Butchers of America and president of the east side branch of that association, when seen at his place of business, 2503 Broadway, said that 1t was simply a question of open or closed shop, and that the retail dealers were perfectly willing to grant all of the demands. of the strikers and that as a matter of fact they had been granting them long be- fore the strike was called
 He added that he was willing to close his shop at six o'clock, but he wasn't willing to let the men go until they had cleaned up the shop. We must, according to the health depart ment ordinances, see that our shops are clean," he said,
 Dr. Henry Moskowitz, commission CT of public markets, said that he did not anticipate any trouble resulting from the strike. "but there may be some aliens employed to take the places of the strikers and that might cause some di'tu1p 1pance." he added.
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