The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-26
CULINARY UNION
WORKERS STRIKE
Restaurant ProprIetors Claim
only About Eight Work
ers Have Quit

Although the cards Of the Gun,
i nary Workers Union nave pe .t
.5remoyed from all but one Oh 'ne
I:Iocal eating houses. propr1etoie. y.
& the restaurants declared TO-DAY tnas
2;t the strike of the culinary "orh ,ts
3s5i,ad not affected the restaurants.
A 40 +errents given out today, the
5S3I.estauraat 5proQrietors cnareeo lhs
z55Ssc,,,1inery union with unfa.rness anu
made the claim that only apout
81 ei.ht members of the union nave
quit work.
sSs.1,he Culinary Workers Union
mo. so has done us great lnJus,
stice:p declared the proprietor OF d
" local restaurant this morning. we
have always been in favor OF Or
gsraniZed %labor, and l am sure thse
5ss,syerv member OF the Restaurant
Owners. Association will back me
8siIi that statement. We have pro
5Stected union workers but they nave
mot protected us in return
t,Fhe culinary union should give
ss3tI1e restaurant propritors the same
EScon sideration that we give them
4 but they haven't done it. we nave
SSgone to the union on several oc.
q sions for protection against the
seItlhSc AAo"HSN'
have neglected to help US.
there's the point: some res,
7taurants employ organized help anu
some do not. 1t is known fact
9ifhat such places as the Falrmont
Hotel the " w. c. A. Comuntzis
and Stacks and a number OF drug
stores have never employed union
workers and yet these places nave
3 a &bis patronage among the union
4 people OF the city
s5..tt11he Restaurant Owners Ass3,
n citation has protested to the loca'
union many times but nothing mas
zbeen done to remedy the situation,
I'VE told the officials to either make
II til en- employ union help or to place
Them on tnefunfair listrby publicity
HI through the local papers and
sSthrough the unions of the city. Tfe
fact remains that neither or THESE
Fittings have been done and we were
Obliged to reduce the scale in order
90 compete with the places employ.
s1ins ncn-unior help.
Another injustice is shown in
" VI the matter of over time We find
that two girls are enough to Keep
things going in ordinary times.
I've paid the girls all that they
asked and everything went lovely
until one night a crowd oil tour
lists came to the restaurant TO pc
served. 1T was just 1880 and one
ofsthe girls was through work we
told her that one girl could not
sSs handle the crowd and If she would
Sss rem ain we would pay her for the
sSg$ over time that she worked She
said that the union would only
IS How her to work eight hours,
and We were obliged to hire new
help to wait on trad9 that would
88ssss not present itself again in several
sss months.
Harvey Paist. proprietor al
8s III arwey's, refused to make any
,sS additional remarks concerning the
sss$siftiation for he said the paper
has printed q bunch of lies and
the publics mind has already been
Anything that we might
s now to protect our interest:
{T,1lds be disregarded by the PEG
lssSwho read Thursdays article:
Apostolou, the proprietor O
Liberty restaurant, is the
Frestaurant owner to Keep tht
lon scale. When queSuonet
s3out the demands made by the
yiss.kers.@ he said they were yer!
onable.
ia we pay Inc BIKE " ~ WI "a -
ss15 for eight hours and thu
get SIS for the same length
me. The other places in toW1
s. ~ strengthened the hours and re
the wages to $40 for thu
and $50 for the boys. W.
let to run a union shop regard
kof the rest and at the presen
we have the only union res
hit in this district" Apostle
ioSS ec1ared-
e other restaurant employer
{cIaim that their help did no
walk out and that six or sever
in ion workers have quit work
sssSs According to that statement, Their
are at the present time abou
eisft mem bers of the culinar.
S;sss IN on In this city instead OF sixty
ave. as claimed by officers of tn
UNI on. Ia,
sreearding the union and we wan
avery m ember of organized labo
IN town to know that the culinar
:s SIyork have. done US a great IN
inst CO., declared another restaur
ant proprietor today.
RETAIL GRocERs MEET
cLEVELAND. O., June 18th
t,xvent y-fifth annual convention
5ses National Association OF Reta
Il TO-DAY and WI