The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
FIVE MASS RALLIES TO GREET 18TH YEAR OF SOVIET REVOLUTION
Bush Terminal
Service Mems
Strike Is Firm
Strikers Hold Out for
Demands on Paw
and Hours

The strike Of $50 building service
workers Of the Bush Terminal Com
pany, in Brooklyn, which was called
a week ago Wednesday under the
leadership Of Local 51-B of the
Building Service Employees Inter
national Union, A. F. of L., con-
tinueS in spite of the attempt of
the employers to intimidate the
strikers by the use of special police,
detectives, thugs and scabs who are
reported to have been imported from
Pennsylvania.
The union has presented demands
for increases in pay for all lines.
with minimum wage Of thirty dol
lars per week, for forty hours, and
for union recognition. During nego-
tiations prior to the strike. the com
pany granted several small increases
in an effort to forestall the strike.
but this maneuver was unsuccess-
full.
A hearing of the dispute before
the Regional Labor Board has been
scheduled for tomorrow, according
to M. Fiore, secretary of the union.
The company, he said, has ex-
pressed its willingness to deal COL
Iectively with its employees" and to
permit them to join the union, but
will not enter into any agreement
with the union.
Fiore has refused to permit the
men to accept collective bargaining
through committee of three work.
ers employed in the terminal, which
according to him was agreed to by
the owners.
A partial victory, strikers have
declared, would improve their con-
ditionS and strengthen the union so
as to make possible fight for union
recognition and further improve
mentS later on.
Opinions have been expressed by
strikers that any action by Fiore in
sacrificing the economic demands of
the strikers for the demand of
union recognition is contrary to
their interests.
1t should be made clear that
union recognition, expressed in dues
collection without determined
stand for the economic demands of
the workers is betrayal of the
interests of the strike.
The building service workers in
the garment center should benefit
by this experience and make sure
that their victory is not turned into
a purely union recognition accom-
The economic demands
will be taken up by the arbitration
board and it is up to the men to
make the board come across with
the main economic demands.
A leaflet issued by the Bush Ter
minal unit of the Young Communist
League yesterday called upon all
workers in the terminal not to 90 up
with scab ELEVATOR operators, not to
touch freight handled by scabs, and
to back the strike morally and fnan-
cially.
The leafiet called on the strikers
to accept no settlements of the
strike until all the strikers vote for
it, and to demand from their lead
ers that MAJ picketing be organized
and that the help of the workers
inside the buildings be enlisted to
support the strike and help keep the
scabs out.
Picketing at the terminal still
under police regulation,
but as yet no support has been given
to the strikers by the other workers,
such as teamsters, etc., who work
at the building.
The suit of the Brooklyn water
front employers to enjoin sympa-
thetic action on the part of the
longshoremen's unions and the
5eamsters is being used by the lead
ers of these unions as an excuse for
not coming to the support of the
striking terminal workers. How
ever, out-of-town and independent
5eamsters have shown their solidar-
lty by refusing to work alongside of
scabs.