The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-07-23
President, Washington State
Federation of Labor.

The following poster was received
rom the Secretary of the Tacoma
Central Labor Council in re the
81 ike against the Won Herberg-Je n-
sen Theatre Company, with request
to post in Labor Temple office:
TO OUR FRIENDS THE PUBLIC
We take this opportunity of an
swering statements made recently in
the public press of Tacoma by Or
ganist Edward Benedict.
First Mr.. Benedict states that
the operators Struck" The fact is
the Moving Picture Operators were
locked out, and the musicians, in
accordance with their affiliation
agreement with the other amuse-
ment crafts, were ordered to leave
their engagements when non-union
operators were suddenly introduced
on the job.
Second. Benedict condemns his
fellow workers demand for the six
hour day as being Gun American"
He only works five hours and fifty
minutes a day himself, and is paid
$225.00 week for his services. Com
ment is unnecessary. The siX-hour
day and wage scale asked by Tacoma
operators already prevails in prac-
tically all cities of the Northwest
and on the Pacific Coast, and this
fact alone should be sufficient indi-
cation that the local operators are
not asking anything unreasonable
when they want the same hours and
wages enjoyed by their fellow crafts
men in other cities.
Third. All contracts made by the
members of the American Federation
of Musicians contain a clause that
nothing in the contract shall ever
be so construed as to interfere with
any obligation to the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians by reason of
their prior obligation to the Ameri-
can Federation of Musicians as mem
bers thereof Benedict states that if
he had obeyed the orders of the
officials of the Musicians Associa-
ton he would have betrayed his en-
ployers and broken his contract
with them. All properly executed
contracts provide for such situations
as the present one, so it is obvious
that Mr.. Benedict did not have a
contract made in conformity with the
laws of the organization to whom he
had pledged his most sacred word of
honor to obey the orders of its Of
ficers.
Moving Picture Operators are
locked out of the following theatres
Rial.b, Colonial, Victory, Strand,
Bijou, World, Palace, Sunset, Vau-
dette, Rex, Shell, and Lincoln.
The following theatres are fair to
Organized Labor and worthy of your
support: Tacoma, Pantages, Liberty,
Apollo, Hippodrome, Hillside, Rose,
Park, Orpheum, Everybodys, and
Realart.
THEATRICAL FEDERATION
OF TACOMA
The request was complied with
and the poster was also ordered
printed in the Labor Journal.
Reports of Committees
The Organization Committee re-
ported the organization of the
Theatre Ushers and Ticket Sellers
j The charter was installed and dele
gates from the new union seated in
the Council.
A few minutes were devoted to
the discussion of Triple Alliance af-
fairs.
The Committee on COOPERATIVE
Market reported progress.
The Committee on the Benefit
Picnic next Sunday, the proceeds de-
rived from the sale of tags to be
given for the benefit of the wives
and children of the men imprisoned
in connection with the Centralia
tragedy, reported arrangements had
been made to hold the picnic in For
est Park. There will be found cook
ing conveniences for those who de-
sire them, Sultan River water, light
and telephone. (See transportation
arrangements elsewhere in this paper
under the heading "The Forest Park