The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
SOCIALIST JEWISH DAILY
FORWARD HELPS RESTAURANT
BOSSES IN WAGE CUT ON WATERS

hours" emphasis ours0
"All this results according to Hill
quit Thomas, Music & Company,
in the expense being higher for the
restaurant owners and it is irnpos-
sible to stand the competition of the
cafeterias."
In this fashion the Forward gang
sters prepared their public" for the
Mecca Temple meeting of the res
taurant bosses. The meeting was COW
cred by the Forward reporter who
had orders to keep silent about the
whole purpose of the meeting, which
was to start the campaign to cut
wages 25 per cent,
Instead, the socialist reporters
news was Jewish restaurant keepers
demand forbidding food counters in
the Drug Stores" This was the main
head in the Forward Only in sub
head was it mentioned: They also
spoke about cutting wages" But said
the Forward; That the restaurant
owners need relief, there can be no
doubt about it. Their hours are in
human long (emphasis ours - from
dawn to late at night they must work
IN their business-mostly with their
wives and children-they never have
a free day or free hour-for them
there is no Sabbath, no Sunday, no
hoiday-it is q business that eats
up their time, their family life and
their social life" The Jewish Daily
Forward gangsters who live on River
side Drive and have tens of thousands
of dollars in the bank, are plainly
heart-broke11 over the restaurant bos-
ses.
The lavish Daily Forward reported
said more: AT the meeting were
many of the most prominent res
taurateurs of New York. But the
meeting looked to me like Union
meeting" Your reporter has seen
many Union meetings and he can
state that this meeting was not
bit different than a Cloakmakers or
Tailors Union. The same stories, the
same troubles, the same speeches and
it seems to me the same people" The
Forwards reported knows we'll the
company union officials of the IL.
CIV. and Amalgamated Clothing -
Schlesinger, Hillman, Mathew Vol
and Company's representatives.
The Walters Union delegate to the
Central Trades & Labor Council. who
made an appeal for support of the
A. F. of l.. officialdom against this
campaign of wage slashing, is still
very naieve. He must have hoped
something would be done by the fas-
cist officials of the A. F. of l.. We
hope he has learned what all other
workers must learn who are still mis-
led and sold out by these takers.
Nothing can be gained by reporting
issues of struggle to the den of
thieves and Tammany Hall gangsters
who rule over the Cenartl Trades g.
Labor Council or to any other group
of A. F. of L officials and their So
cialist henchmen This worker also
made an attempt to protest to the
labor editor Of the Forward, Schae-
fer, who, of course, paid no atten-
ton to the complaint.
A strike of the walters is likely to
break out at any time while the ne
gotiations are now being conducted
between the Walters Union and the
bosses association. The rank and
file has forced the A. F. of L. Off
cialdom thus far, but the usual SELL
out is likely to be the outcome.
Against this possibility the Trade
Union Unity League and the Food
Workers Industrial Union have Isl
sued a leaflet warning the workers to
watch their betrayers and to fight
militantly against the Forward Bos-
ses-Socialist Alliance to smash down
the already lowered standards of the
workers. The fight centers around
defeating the restaurant owners ulti-
matqn1 to cut wages IS a week and
to win the workers into the RANKS
Of the revolutionary Food Workers
r~dust-ial Union.