The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-14
new FOOD union
WINNING SHOPS
Call Restaurant Toilers
to Bronx Rally

How to fight wage-cuts being
forced by the fascist officials on
members of Local 1 Walters, A. F
of L.. and how to better conditions
of all restaurant and cafeteria work
ers will be planned at a special
meeting Thursday night called by
the Bronx section of the new Food
Workers Industrial Union at the
new Bronx headquarters, 1894 Third
Ave
At a meeting of Local 500 Bakers
"a. F. L.. at which only 300 were
present, Meyerhof, the general sec
rotary of the International, declared
in answer to questions demanding
why they have not renewed agree
ments with the bosses, "This is
1880, and there are to be no strikes.
If the bosses want the same agree
ment. they can have it. If they do
not want to pay the 10 holidays, but
only ?. we settle for 2. If they re-
fuse to accept working credentials
extra workers.. they have a right
to refuse"
Local 500 in Revolt.
The members of Local 800 are
again in revolt. and this time are
openly expressing the demand that
the whole membership flock into the
new Food Workers Industrial
Union.
At Saturdays meeting Of the
Brooklyn section Of the Industrial
Union Mr. Friedland stood down
stairs with his gangsters in an at
tempt to prevent bakers from COM
ing to their meeting. This he failed
to do and the answer of the meet
ing was that the rank and file de-
Tense committee will be set up to
stop every attempt to smash the or
ganization of the food workers.
Strike e. e S. Bakery.
The G. & S. Bakery on Allerton
Ave, Bronx, was called on strike
Saturday. NJ. Pinchefsky, one of
the organizers Of the Industrial!
Union, was arrested and held on
$500 bail on a framed up charge
by the boss. The picketing goes on
steadily. This is a shop that was
signed with the A. F. of L.
Strikes at the Monroe Cafeteria
on 35th St, the Benrod Cafeteria on
125th St, the Senator Cafeteria on
Grand ST., Brooklyn, still continue.
The G. & S. Cafeteria on 23rd ST,
was forced to close down today after
a few weeks of militant strike ac-
tivity.
The shop of Morris Taub. 933 E.
fremont Ave, at which the Food
Clerks had a fight for one year, was
forced to sign up with the new union
this week. This was a bitter fight
against an A. F. of L. shop, the de-
termination of the strikers forcing
this settlement. In the Bronx sec
ton, five new shops were settled
this week while shops are on
strike. One shop "a. F. of L. was
settled with the new union this
week in Brooklyn, where the head
quarters are 16 Graham Ave.
Pattos Bakery shop, Allerton
Ave, was struck yesterday. Max
Ente, Katz, and Arkel Richter,
gangsters and misleaders of the
Bakers Local 500 "A. F. L., were
there but were not able to prevent
picketing. Another strike has been
called at Sanis Dairy, OCT E. 165th
St.
Five Sentenced.
Five Food Workers were SEN
fenced to Jail yesterday by the
bosses controlled Tammany Hall
judges. Paragraph 600, a vicious
so-called law, directed against the
workers striking for living condi-
tons was used. These cases are
left over from the last strike, con-
Quoted by the Cafeteria Workers
Union. Gellepus and Pappina re-
ceive1 60 days and Licalzi, Valtuk
and Feduk, 80 days.
On Thursday, a mass meeting of
the Bronx Restaurant workers is
called by the F.WIU. where the
organization Of the unorganized is
to be discussed.
Three more shops were settled by
the F.WIU TODAY