The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
Strike
Shuts Buildings
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the Executive Board of the union
will take up this question.
Strikers Demands
The strike call was issued by
James j. Bambrick Wednesday
night, effective early next morning,
after month of fruitlesS negotia-
tons with Lawrence B. Cummings,
president of the Real Estate Board,
and the Regional Labor Board were
broken off on the preceding day.
The strikers demands include:
recognition of the union, the 40-hour
week, elimination of the stretch
out" syst m, no discrimination
against Negro workers and no over
time. When overtime is put in, time
and half for overtime is de-
nanded.
The following wage scale is de-
manded by the strikers for 40-hour
week, including dinner and relief
hours.
Elevator operators, $35 a week;
porters, $32; head porters, $40; as
siStant starters, $40; starters, $45;
chief starters, under certain condi-
lions, SOS; chief elevator mechanics,
$75; elevator mechanics, $50; me-
chanics' helpers, $40; carpenters,
$50; painters, $45; plumbers, $50;
plumbers helpers, $40; chief cleo
tricians, $75; electricians, $50; cleo
tricians' helpers, $40; chief engi-
neers, SIS; engineers, $50; firemen,
$45; special officers, $35,
Nearly a thousand strikers who
lined the curbs and entrances of
the buildings affected, carried plac-
ards appealing to all unions.
ION S trik e-Garment Workers
Help Us VIM" read some of the
signs.
For Your Own Safety, Do Not
Ride With Strikebreakers," other
placards read.
Almost a million workers en-
ployed in the needle and other
trades in the garment center, it is
reported, are affected by the strike.
Workers Support Strike
An excellent response in support
Of the strike by hundreds of work
ers employed in the needle market
could be seen in front of most of
the large buildings affected.
Hundreds of workers remained in
the Hobbies of the buildings refusing
to go up in cars run by scabs, UNI
til chased by the police under the
direction of Inspector Alexander G..
H. Anderson.
I'VE will tie up every building in
the district" Arthur L. Harckham,
Secretary of the Union and chair
man of the Strike Committee, said,
unless the demands Of the strikers
are granted"
A leaflet issued by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
and distributed in the market,
greeted the strikers and called upon
all needle workers to take the fol-
lowing steps to help the strike.
Firstly, the workers should CO.
operate with the strikers and per-
NIT no workers to 60 up to work
In the buildings on strike; D That
committees of workers from all
shops in the buildings be elected
Immediately demanding of the
management Of buildings, union
elevator and building service;
- That they help the plckets and
see to 1t that no scabs are taken
into the shops by scab elevator
operators; A. That the needle
workers inform their bosses, that
they will have to pay for the time
lost by the workers during the
duration of the strike, and that
the needle workers will not 90 up
In scab run cars, and, 81 That
the needle workers help the strik-
ers spread the strike by helping
them pull out the buildings, the
employees of which have as vet
not responded to the strike call of
the union.
Union leaders charged that the
Real Estate Board has recruited
1000 strikebreakers through profess
sional strikebreaking agencies and
employment bureaus. Employment
OF gangsters, under police protec-
ton, has been reported in numer-
Gus cases.
SO Buildings Settle
Ninety-nine buildings have set
tied with the union by noon yes
terday, according to union officials.
Agreements including 2,700 workers
In IS buildings have been made,
they said, on the basis of a reduc-
ton in hours from GA to 48 and a
50 increase in wages.
The sentiment of the strikers is
to keep up the strike until their
demands are granted by the own
ers. Some strikers expressed dis
satisfaction with partial settlements
below the strike demands and at
tempts at arbitration. They felt
sure that these steps will not be
helpful in assuring the success Of
their strike and expressed their will
lingness to fight it out.
The support offered the strikers
by the needle workers has greatly