The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
New Contract
Will Reduce
Workers PAY
Virtual Company Union
Is Established With
n. Y. Cafe Owners
By WILLIAM ALBERTsON

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On the insistence of the bosses an
A. r. L. charter was granted to this
company union which was instru-
mental in breaking the general hotel
strike during the past winter.
Undermines Workers Conditions
! The agreement signed between Mr..
Klein OF the United Restaurant
jOwners Association and Mr.. Kear-
: ney Of the international union not
only undermines the conditions of
the workers, but even states the
structure which the new auxiliary"
Of Local SOP must follow in being
built. While the workers of Local
300 are striking for and have also
been locked out in a number Of
shops for demanding $35 for coun-
termen, the agreement, as signed,
calls for $25 for countermen and
$1A for countergirls. The unskilled
workers are left at the mercy of
the bosses and the miserable wages
and conditions as called for in the
restaurant code.
The contract also calls for the
establishment of an auxiliary" to
Local 302 to be composed Of all
workers who fall under this agree
ment. At the same time, the agree
ment states that all bosses who are
members of the association will get
the benefits of the agreement. And
also, if a boss at present is under
contract to 302 and he joins the
fer from 302 to the auxiliary. How
ever, the present contract runs for
three years while regular Local 302
agreements run for one year only.
This means that workers az present
under 302 contract, whose boss is or
will become member of the asso-
citation, will transfer into the aux
Hilary while working under 302
scale. However, when their agree
msnt will expire, Local 302 will find
it impossible to resign the agree
ment, but the auxiliary viii sign
the agreement.
Wage Scales Reduced
This means that in a maximum
time of one year or less, the con-
ditionS of the workers in Local 302
will be reduced from the present
scale of wages down to $25 per
week. At the same time, Local 302
will be liquidated by the bosses and
the international union over
period of one year, turning over the
workers, body and soul to the aux
i,iary local which is an outright
company union under the direct
supervision and control of Mr.. Klein
o. the United Restaurant Owners
As-2siation.
AL disputes and controversial
questions will be submitted to a
committee of five, composed of two
members OF the association, two
members of the auxiliary" and an
impartial chairman. The contract
states that no strike will take place
in the association shops, but that
all questions will be submitted to
the body in which the workers will
be ou5vcted at least three to two.
Aimed at Industrial Union
This scab action on the part of
the International Union is not
something new. 1t is a clever man
euver which was cooked up at the
recent international convention in
Minneapolis on Aug. Is to 20. Be-
hind this vancouver stands Mr..
Klein of the association. And work.
ing together with Mr.. Klein are
Messrs. Flore, International Presi-
dent, and Lehman and Kearney, In
ternational Vice Presidents Their
plan is to put the restaurant in
dustry in New York under the con-
t:ol of Mr.. Klein who has an in
junction since 1929 against the Food
Workers Industrial Union. Their
ultimate perspective is that by
building the United Association to-
gether with the use of the injunc-
ton, that not only will they be able
to control the industry, undermine
conditions, and establish this aux
Hilary as real company union, but
also to eliminate the Food Workers
Industrial Union from the picture
with the use Of their already in
famous injunction.
The officials of Local 302, by their
actions and policy are certainly not
helping the membership of Local
3O2 and the other workers. In this
present strike as in the past, only
the countermen have been taken
out leaving behind the unskilled
workers. Even realizing the fact
that in some of these shops, men,
bers Of the Cafeteria Workers
Union were employed as unskilled,
Local 3o2 did nothing to approach
this Union, organize a joint COM
mittee, and declare joint strikes for
the skilled and the unskilled work
ers. Meanwhile the Cafeteria
Workers Union Local ITO of the
Food Workers Industrial Union is
approaching the membership and |
the strike committee of Local 302
offering cooperation in the strike
for the demands and against the
company union organized by the
bosses and the International off, |
Gals.
81 only is the membership of
Lcaal coz incensed against this scab
.el5 and company union SELL
out, but the membership of the
....I ..or.iars industrial Union and |
the uno- ganized workers realize that |
a victory for the association of the |
bosses and the International Of