The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
BRONX BARRIERS
AND GIRLS Win
THEIR DEMANDS
Beauty Shop Workers
in Good Agreement

After a short but decisive three
day strike 1000 union BARRIERS and
beauty shop girls in the Bronx were
back on the job yesterday with all
demands won except for reduction
of one hour on Saturday.
The new agreement was signed in
union headquarters on Boston Road
when the bosses agreed to raise the
wages Of week end workers from $50
to 500, Of Saturday BARRIERS from $12
to S14, and to close beauty shops at
promptly.
Exceptional among the demands
won was that providing that in all
shops employing more than one bar
Der and two girls, the boss is TO- do
nate the time of one barber and ,one
girl for one day to help organize scab
shops in the Bronx. Thus the bosses
themselves will pay for organization
work.
Members of the union who stayed
on the job during the strike are to
be hailed before the union executive
DOaIu 70 pay pAo lines
Shops Close at 8 +. Nj.
Working hours for BARRIERS will be
between 8 a. m. and p. m. with 10
p. m. on Saturday, instead of the
p. m. closing asked by the union.
Beauty shops are to close promptly
at 8.
Beauty parlor girls who toll from
10 to midnight in the gilded shops of
the complexion industry are winning
a better life with the victory of local
$50.
"Sorry madame, but it's 9 o'clock;
union closing time" my lady is told
as she comes for a permanent wave
after a late dinner.
Fought for Women.
1t is the first New York barber
strike that was fought for the women
as well as the men. Of the 1000
strikers some 200 were women mani
curists and "wavers" and ace mas
sage experts and other beauty arts
ans employed in union barber shops.
And now the strike is continuing
with vigor against the beauty parlors
for women only, employing a thous-
and women in non-strike times, under
scab conditions. Some 500 of these
workers are already out and the rest
are rapidly responding to the 'beau-
ty" pickets.
Sadie Reisch of the Women's Trade
Union League, who has been picket
ing with the strikers, told their story.
Often Worked Till Midnight.
"The beauty parlor workers were
at the mercy of the boss. They
worked from 9 to and often to mid
night, with no union to protect them.
A customer coming in at closing time
for a permanent wave that might
take hours was seldom turned down
and the girl received no extra wages.
"a 9-hour day is the first demand
of the union, and after that comes a
scale of wages that standardizes the
pay for the different beauty crafts,
Till now the girl took what the boss
offered or took herself away for an
other job where conditions were
equally as Dad.
New Scale.
The new beauty shop scale runs as
follows: Permanent waivers anC
dyers get $40 with 500 of all takings
over $50 a week, and similar pay fol
marcel waivers and haircutters the
same. These are the most skilled
workers. Pay for less skilled runs
as follows: Marcel wavers who dc
no haircutting get $50, with 5096 Of
everything over $50 week; eye brow
tweezers and shampooers get $2I
with SOC over $40; manicurists gel
$40 minimum, with 500 of everything
taken in over $50; booth workers ge'
$35 with 500 over $50 receipts.
Women and men get off at p. m
holidays.
A strike Of 5000 BARRIERS in tn,
district below 14th St., Manhattan
may follow the Bronx strike, it wa'
announced yesterday by Abe Green
valid, chairman of the New Yorl
Joint Board of the BARRIERS Unions
Unionization of all shops in tn,
financial district. on lower Broadwa!
and on the west side would be thu