San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-10
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milk DRIVERS
QUIT JOBS
dissatisfied Employees to
Appeal Case to
Labor Union.

Nistietoe Creameries off Of the job
Thursday morning. difficulties between
officials of the company and members
q the milk delivery force remained I'M
je<tied.
sRumors Of a general waikout OF the
milk wagon drivers arose Wednesday
when . controversy over contract
Admitted by members of a newly
formed Milk Wagon Drivers Union
gtrne 10 q head.
Only six out Of 50 drivers not being
On their routes Thursday morning, Of
ffrials of the company secuted the idea
Il strike. The six drivers, they said,
we're overly impatient over the signing
q the contract and quit.
~ APPEAL TO UNIONS.
The jobless drivers. claiming they
had been locked out, Thursday morn
5hg were planning to take their case
,!p before representatives OF organized
ltbor here.
: Checks TO pay off the men who did
l3pt 20 to work Thursday morning were
made out, according to B. F. Phillip,
assistant general manager OF the
cteameries company.
Explaining the company's stand on
DE matter, Mr.. Phillip said that the
majority of employees of the company
IRE satisfied and are not in favor or
Signing the contract at present.
Unknown to officials of the com
rhuy, he said, employees started petit
don advising against signing con-
tfact at this time that would recognize
the drivers union. Ninety per cent OF
the 200 employees of the establishment,
he said, signed the petition.
= SAYS DEMANDS MET.
There are so milk wagon drivers IN
HE company, Mr.. Phillip said. Only
20 of them. he said, belong to the new
union.
Wage demands of the drivers, Mr..
Phillip said, were granted the first OF
nhe month.
Claims Of the jobless drivers were
aetailed Thursday by G. n. Idar. who.
= q representative of the American
federation of Labor. has been acting
n 4 go-between for officials of the
Dmpany and members OF the drivers
Union.
ACCORDING to Mr.. Idar's claim, the
men have been getting less than
living wage. His allegation is they
Def S75 a month and a commission
q 10 per cent on butter and eggs
old on their routes.
HEAVY BOTTLE LOSSES.
: Up to recently, he said. they were
brced 10 stand bottle losses and
Hreakage which mounted to between
sc and S14 a month.
II 10 further alleged BY members
a the drivers union. according to
Mr.. Idar, that the present trouble
FIRST took root few months ago when
the percentage on butter and egg sales
vas cut from 10 per cent 10 2 cents
dn each pound Of butter and on each
carton Of eggs.
The claim of the men, he said, Is
56at, what Is supposed TO have been
! raise on the first of the month
h merely a restoration Of the former
percentages.
NO FEAR OF STRIKE.
A bottle breakage concession made
3 the men on the first, he said, al
lows for the breskage or loss Of 2 IL
bottles out Of each 100, and does not
cover the natural loss for which the
driver ie in no way responsible.
Further impetus 70 the trouble, &c
fording to Mr.. Idar, was started at
the beginning of the present Com
munity Chest drive when, it is al
legged. officials Of the company
pIedged each employee 10 donate s.,
Under fear Of losing his job il he
did not comply.
Assurance that the trouble win not
seeult in 3 walkout was seen Thurs
DAY by Mr.. Phillip IN the fact that
mere wes no apparent dissatisfaction
smong the men who continued 10
york.
SAYS OTHERS SATISFIED.
sThey do not ask for more money
- better conditions" be said, "and
most Of them are against pressing
the contract at a time when II could
not even be signed because Of the
absence Of Manager A. J. White, who
, out Of the city"
Whether q meeting viii be held by
shose employees Of the company who
are members Of the drivers union
mas not known Thursday.
The anion rs recognized by the
American Federation and was char
tered by the International Brotherhood
u Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen
and Helpers, Of America, M Idar
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