The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-15

Is. 1. l.. OF A, returned 10 tle CITY
and submitted favorable report to
Sleeping Car, Parlor Car Porters and
Dining Car Walters, Local 268, the
organization they represented at this
Convention The entire program was
put over and they have the dlatinc-
ton of being the only delegates that
met and conferred with the General
Executive Board after the Conyen-
ton adjourned, where they made
their argument in behalf of Local
26S effective The question of jul
rsdiction according to craft auto
nomy has been definitely settled and
by combining the resources Of these
men, we may expect the most effect
i've changes in working conditions.
The latitude covered by this juris-
diction can be so arranged thai it can
oe beneficial to everybody concerned
by applying common sense and
according to satements based on
facts, it is known to all that d beef
steak cooked in the kitchen Of the
diner is of the same kind of mate
rial as that served in any of the cat
shops in the city and that the cook
that prepares that steak for the din
ing car patrons could do the same
Job without being in dining room
on wheels or rather kitchen on
wheels. We might also admit that
the waiter who serves a meal on a
diner could perform the same duty at
restaurant and if pressed, 1t might
be admitted that the man who pre-
pares a sleeping car for use could
possibly do the same act in a hotel
Since it appears that these workers
belong to the Catering Industry Era
ployes, they are working in hotels
with wheels under and it would take
great big stretch of imagination
TO make them railroad men in the
same sense that brake-men and
switchmen and similar workers arg
considered There is no opportu-
nifty for brakeman in industry for
there is no work of that kind in the
usual acceptance of the term, eX-
cept on trains; but is is differelt
with catering workers. For instance.
If all the railroads Discontinued using
diners and sleepers, these catering
industry workers could find employ
ment at their trade in Other cst2b-
iishments and many of them do
divide their time between the rail
road and other places that arc ssa-
tionary.
If these workers were deaied the
right to employment in hotels, cafda
and restaurants because they we've
working on wheeled hotels, thsy
would have just cause to cone 70 tie
A. +. of l.. and seek remedy. IN
many of Our coass towns they haVe
excursion steamers, passenger steam
er5 and some men who WORK one
day on the steamers work the fol-
lowing day on land. These men a5c
not seamen, by any meals, becaaio
eff the changed location of their la
Dor, and that holds good with the
Pullman car employees and dining car
employees.
Whenever there is strike in aSy
! of the hotels or restaurants. codii
you imagine the employer LOOKING
for breakers IN some cf The
round houses or switch shantias
I along the railroads? They generally
go where they know that men who
have a knowledge of this elaea cf
work hang oat, and that Is the places
that are frequented By eooi.5, wai--
crs and porters, because they can be
more easier adjusted to the condi-
tons than brakeman or an ablc sen
man sailing before the mast.
When we appeal to the workers we
do not specify whites, We say Wovl-.
ers, for we know only too we'll what
the employer desires. He wants and
is getting division, because of pitting
black against white, and vice versa,
and when we take into consideration
the great financial benefits that the
employing class have been able to
receive from time to time because Of
thse magnified differences, we som =
times wonder why workers can be
SO nearsighted and not see the faul.s
as they really exist, which is the lack
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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