The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Elevator Mems
Strike Again
Is POstponed

Is Us LpOHtu
The strike of the building service
workers of about rs buildings in the
New York garment center whose
owners have not as yet signed up
with the union, which was post
poned from Thursday for Friday,
was again postponed, according to
James j. Bambrick, president of
Local BIB of the Building Service
Employees International Union, A.
F. of L., which led the strike week
ago. This time the postponement
was made until Monday, II am.
Last weeks strike was terminated
due to the interference of Mayor
LaGuardia and Ben Golden of the
Regional Labor Board. The post
ponements are being made by the
leaders of the union at the requests
of the same people.
The partial victory gained in last
weeks strike, in which 80 per cent
of the buildings were signed up with
the union and in nearly 80 per cent
of which the workers succeeded in
getting wage increases up to $40 as
the minimum scale and those get
ting above the minimum a fiat in
crease of 81, was direct result of
the splendid response by the work
ers to the strike call and the ex-
cellent spirit of solidarity displayed
by the needle trades workers.
Solidarity Praised
1.-THE magnificent exhibition of
solidarity, Of every worker, whether
in the A. F. of L., Industrial, or out
and out Communist unions, exceed
ed anything I have ever seen, Bam-
brick stated yesterday. Technical
lines of cleavage were completely
swept aside. These workers are to
large degree responsible for our
victory"
All individual owners of buildings
in the garment, millinery and fur
districts have signed up, he said
The buildings owned by the banks
and trust companies and other
financial institutions, he said, are
the only ones that have so far re-
fused to do so. These organiza-
tons fatty refuse to deal with union
labor" he concluded.
Outstanding among these are the
Metropolitan Life Company, New
York Life, Central Hanover Bank,
Union Dime, Emigrants, Seamen's
and numerous other banks.
Organization among some of the
largest buildings in the financial
district is being carried on, accord
ing to Mr.. Bambrick.
Owners Prepare
While the union leaders are post
poning action for one reason or
another and are engaged in nego-
tiations and arbitration, no time
is lost by the real estate owners
to make the necessary preparations
to counterfeit whatever strike prep
aratiolas the union may be making.
At a meeting of building super
intendentS Thursday night, Sharp
and Mascot of Broadway and 72nd
Street, and Mark Rafalsky, with
offices at the Central Savings Bank
on 18th Street and Broadway, man
agement organizations, were dis
cussing the impending strike.
They announced that the Real
Estate Operators have informed
them that they have a fund of
$500000 to fight the strike. They
are prepared to turn every apart
ment house into an armed fortress
with from to so guards. They are
prepared to blacklist every worker
who walks out, they declared.
The Realty Advisory Committee
on Labor Relations has been doing
its bit in attempting to get public
opinion against the strikers by hav-
ing paid advertisements published
in numerous newspapers in the city.
Advertise for Scabs
They are, judging by these adj
vertisements, like Mayor La Guar
dia, sick at heart" over the possible
spreading OF the strike. They even
threaten the public with a condition
which "the city authorities may
have difficulty in quelling."
The New York American carried
yesterday numerous ads calling for
scabs, specifying size and weight
and promising free board and lodg-
ings.
1t is obvious that the bosses are
making frantic preparations. 1t is
also obvious that unless the mem
bership and leaders Of the union
will make the necessary prepara-
lions to unity all the forces of the
workers in the industry, stop fool
ing around with round table con-
ferences and arbitration and es-
tablish strong union with broad
participation of the rank and file
leadership, chances are that the
gains made will be lost and further
Improvement of the conditions of
the building service workers will be
prevented.