Evening star., 1934-05-03
STRIKE OF BAKERS
SETTLED, TWO ARE
| STILL ARb|TRATED
Bread Shortage Disap-
pears-Ice Cream Work.
ers Remain Out.
CONTRACTORS BACKED
| IN CARPENTERS DISPUTE
Offer of $1.10 an Hour Is Adhered
To as Union Demands
Rate of $1.371a.

AS Washington's bread shortage
disappeared under an avalanche Of
freshly baked bread turned out of the
ovens last night by bakers returned
to work after settlement of their strike
yesterday, attention was turned today
to the two other unsettled strikes by
ice cream workers and carpenters.
Negotiations were scheduled today
over the ice cream mems wage sched-
ule, but the carpenters wage dispute
appeared to be as far from settlement
as ever.
Howard T. Colvin of the Concilia-
ton Service, Department of Labor,
who figured prominently in negotia-
tions leading to settlement of the bak-
ers' strike yesterday, resulting in
higher wages for bakers and their
helpers, was in touch today with both
the ice cream mems union and their
employers. There was a possibility
OF some conferences growing out OF
the Ice cream situation, with hopes Of
settling the strike. The workers are
asking for raise of 81 a day.
Meantime, the Master Builders
Association has been backed up by big
out-of-town contractors on Govern
ment buildings here, in standing firm
against the demands of carpenters for
an increase of 3715 cents an hour
above the old wage scale of 81 an
hour, or So day. The master build
ers and other large contractors have
renewed their offer of SIl0 an hour.
Whlch previously had been rejected
by the Carpenters Union.
$l.1O Rate Held Fair.
Following the meeting of contrac-
tors yesterday afternoon at the Com
tlnental Hotel, statement was issued
declaring 1t was the unanimous"
opinion that the offer of SIlO Der
hour on an eight-hour basis as sub
mitted by the association was "eui-
nently fair" 1t was further stated
tnat there was mo justification for
an increase in the rate to sl37Is
per hour, six-hour day basis" as de-
manded by the local carpenters union.
Inc Master Builders Association.
and the other contractors take the
stand" said their statement. that
every effort is being made to stimulate
ana create more private building in
washington, and they feel that any
advance above the offer of sl.lO made
Dy them would retard private building,
ana lnJure the opportunity for both
the builder to secure contracts and
tne carpenter to obtain employment"
Inc offer made by the association
compares faVorably with the rate paid
carpenters in surrounding cities. and
the builders after careful considera-
ton have decided to refuse the de-
manos OF the carpenters local union.
but are willing to renew the offer of
81 10 per hour for an eight-hour day."
Inc agreement to settle the bakers
strlKe was reached early yesterday
AFTERNOON by a compromise, which.
however, granted to both the bakers
and their helpers nearly all their de-
manded increase. Bakers were raised
from the old rate of 80 cents an hour
to $l.02 for day work, after they had
been offered 81 and demanded sl.O5.
Night bakers were raised from the old
scale of $l.08 to SLIP an hour after
they had been offered Sl.2O and de-
manded SIPS.
Go to Work Immediately.
Bakers helpers were raised from
40 to SIS cents per hour for day work
ana from so to IS cents per hour for
night work.
Following the agreement yesterday
afternoon, bakers went immediately
10 work. Overnight all bakeries which
mad been shut down by the strike
turned out an additional amount, and
the wagons which left plants at 7
o'clock this morning for all parts of
the city were loaded more heavily
than ever before, to fill the empty
shelves.
Ihe Ice cream companies still hold
ing out against the demands of work.
ers for an increase in pay are the
so-called big four"-Carry, FusseIl-
Young, Colonial and Southern Diaries.
Men now earning $3.50 want $3.50.
those at 81 want SIS and those at s325
are asking an increase of rs cents a
day to 81. Union leaders claim that
this is a restoration of pay and they
would have had It some time ago but
Tor an ice cream price war brought
ABOUT by an outside firm on the "un-
fair list" employing non-union labor.
which has cut down the price of ice
cream, because it pays "ridiculously
low" wages.
Workers Supported.
r. A. Dickson, president Of the
Central Labor Union, said today the
lnhuence of the central body was
being thrown sohdly behind the ice
cream workers in their demands. He
believed settlement Of the bakers
strike yesterday may be influential in
helping to settle the ice cream work.
ers' strike today
Dickson denied that the ice cream
workers had quit work without warn
ing. He said they formally notified
their employers a month ago that
they would quit when the wage con-
tract expired on May l unless their
demands were met. He said they
were willing to open negotiations with
the manufacturers at any time, but
pointed out that members of the
Truck Drivers, Engineers and Fire
mems Unions employed by the ice
cream factories might refuse to work
with any strikebreakers who attempt
to take the places of the ice cream
workers on strike.