The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21

nored even the elementary courtesy
of answering the demands of their
employees for humane conditions of
labor"
Big Buildings Organized
The Union Is concentrating on
the biggest skyscrapers in the city,
it was announced yesterday. Thus
far, officials said, workers in the
Empire State Building, tallest sky
scraper in the world, have been or
ganizd 100 per cent; in the Chrysler
Building, seventy-seven stories high,
sixty per cent; and more than fifty
per cent each in Radio City and in
40 Wall Street, two other tower
ing structures.
Buildings on strike in Manhattan
yesterday included the three Sal
mon skyscrapers at 500 Fifth Ave-
nue., IL West Forty-Second Street
and So West Forty Second Street,
and the buildings at 9 West Twen-
tieth Street, IS West Twentieth, 253
Twenty Sixth, 322 Eighth Avenue.
IS West Twenty Fifth, $40 West
Nineteenth and 1873 Fifth Avenue.
officials of Bob estimated that
there were 1000 buildings in Man
haitian which were covered by the
truce signed by Bambrick and that
there were upward of 5000 build
ings which were not covered by the
'no-strike" agreement. Bamhrick
said yesterday that the Union would
pound away at these 5000 build
ings." Bambrick also announced
that any agreements signed in Man
haitian would not affect either the
Bronx or Brooklyn, where, he said,
strikes might be called on Friday.
Troy Balks
Despite a widespread demand
among Brooklyn members of the
Union for an immediate Borough
walkout, George Troy, vice-presi-
dent of Local 81, in Brooklyn, is
discouraging the strike movement.
After meeting held on Tuesday
night at the A. F. of L. headquarters
in Brooklyn, he predicted that there
would be no strike of building
workers in Brooklyn this week. II
hope" Troy said, there will be no
strike"
A meeting of the membership of
the Brooklyn local was called for
last night at the A. F. of L. head
quarters at $50 Atlantic Avenue.
The scheduled conference be-
tween union officials and represen-
tatives of the landlords took place
yesterday afternoon at the Hotel
Holland, Forty-second Street and
Ninth Avenue. Thomas L. Short
man, chairman Of the rank and file
strike committee, and the entire
executive board of the union met
with representatives of the Mid
Town Realty Owners, the Pennzone
Association and the Association of
Merchants and Property Owners,
who collectively own $40 buildings
in the fur, garment and millinery
districts.
Demands Presented
The union, according to an an
nouncement at the headquarters of
BIB, presented the following de-
mands to the landlords representa-
tives:
All buildings to be divided into
three categories, A, B and c, with
buildings eighteen stories and over
in height to be In category A, from
thirteen to seventeen in category B,
and from one to twelve stories in
category G.
Wages for workers in all cate
gories are to be: Porters, $25 in A
buildings, $23 in B and $40 in c.;
elevator operators, $28 In A, $25 in
B and 500 in g; assistant starters,
$31 in A, S28 in B and $25 in G.;
starters, $35 in A, $32 in B and 500
in C; watchmen, s32 for A, $50 for
B and $28 for c.
Other skilled workers are to get
fifty cents an hour in A buildings,
forty-five cents in B and forty
cents in G. All cleaning women in
all categories are to get fifty cents
an hour.
Working hours are to be as fol-
lows: The forty-eight hour week
las embodied in the State law, Is to