The daily worker., 1924-05-22
no CREEK
BOSSES GET
COURT AID
Judge Friend Issues
New Injunction

Sueu py Judge hugo Frlenu
failed to stop the picketing of
the Northside Greek Restau-
rants by the striking members
of the AmaIgamated Food
Workers, the Greek bosses de-
cided to band together and have
just one association and one
Injunction try to stop the organ
ization of the food workers.
Judge Friend has once more
proved himself friend only to the
Greek bosses by giving them
another injunction.
40 Bosses Scared.
The Injunction was given on May 10
to the American Association of Greek
Restaurant Keepers against the Anal
gamated Food Workers IAN indepen-
dent labor union). Hotel and Restaur-
ant Branch, Chicago" Union officials
have just been served with the new
injunction which is intended to pre-
vent them from acting in over 40
Greek restaurants situated all over
the city.
A. Askounis is president of the new
association of the Greek bosses. He
has restaurant at the corner of N.
Clark and Division streets and runs
an extremely profitable real estate
business on the side. John Papas is
treasurer for the Greek bosses. He
has three restaurants on the further
north side.
Political Lawyers Lead Bosses.
According to the union officials,
most OF the restaurants included in
the new injunction have never been
approached with union contract
and some of the places are quite un-
Qnown to them. Forty-four had CON
tracts with the union The Greek
bosses, led by their counsel, Paul
Demos and Felix ]. Streyckmans,
hope, the Amalgamated Food Work
ers say, to put an end to the unions
fight for the six-day week and eight
hour day in the Greek restaurants of
Chicago.
Fight Boosts Union.
Instead of stopping the work of the
labor organization, the new injunc-
tion has actually stimulated interest
in the union and many new members
are coming in to join the fight for de-
cent conditions in the Greek restaur-
ants. Most of the workers in these
restaurants are Greeks themselves
and strongly resent their exploitation
by their countrymen. They have to
work seven days a week and IL to IA
hours day now.
The Amalgamated Food Workers
held a big mass meeting last night
at their headquarters, 214 N. State
street, to consider what tactics to de-
velop for the carrying on of their
work and for the defeat Of the Greek
bosses newest injunction.
Paul Demos one of the lawyers rep
resenting the Greek restaurant bosses
told the DAILY WORKER that the
main objection of the association he
represented against the union is that
the Amalgamated Food Workers I'm
ion is not regular" labor organiza-
tion. He said that they were only
pretending to be labor organiza-
tion."
They have no connection with the
Federation Of Labor and never did
have" he said. Their whole plan is
a conspiracy against the Greeks of
this city"
Representatives OF the union in
answering the statements of Demos,
said that their union is an indepen-
dent industrial organization which ad-
mits to membership all workers in
the lunch rooms and restaurants from
the dish washers to the cashiers and
the chefs. The reason attention has
been paid especially to the Greek
restaurants is because they pay
very poor wages and work their
help long hours and give them
the poorest sort of food. The
union is organizing the work
ers in the Greek restaurants be-
cause they are rebelling against the
conditions imposed by their bosses
not because the union has any feel.
ing against the members of any ma
tionality, union leaders saw.