The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Elevator
Strikers
Militant
Owners of 80 Buildings
Settle With Members
of Local 32B
1000 ARE STILL OUT
Workers Move to Reject
Arbitration Board
Decisions

Despite the continued insistance
yesterday of officials of the Building
S service Employees international
Union in disclaiming responsibility
for the splendid strike of building
service workers and a conscious eff
fort on their part to discourage its
spreading, the militancy Of the
workers on the job is growing,
The strike action of the workers,
taken in spite of the pleas Of the
officials for patience pending the
publication Of the decision of the
arbitration board headed by Major
Henry H. Curran, has already
brought settlement in numerous
buildings affected.
Win Union Recognition
The strikers succeeded in forcing
Sidney Bernstein, of the Kaye
Realty Corporation, to settle with
the union on the basis of union rec
ignition, the 48-hour week and
higher wages. This settlement in
volyed the seven skyscrapers owned
by the company in the Madison
Square area.
Close to 80 buildings in Harlem
settled with the union, according to
David Richie, member Of the Elk
ecutiye Board of the union, at the
Harlem Center of the union, 200
West 135th Street, on the basis of
adherence to the decision of the
arbitration board
While other owners were calling
the union for settlement, close to
1000 workers we're out late yester-
day, members of the union declared.
Owners Hiring Scabs
Preparing for the possible spread
ing of the strike, realty owners were
hiring scabs through numerous pri-
vate agencies.
Following the lead of Walter Cor
don Merritt, notorious openshop
lawyer hired by the Realty Board
on Labor Relations for the arbitra-
ton proceedings, owners took the
position yesterday that the report
of the Curran board is not con-
sidered by them as binding, but
merely advisory"
Enraged by the confidence in the
decision of the board on the part
of the union officials, hundreds of
members of the union voiced the
opinion yesterday of rejecting the
report unless it meets favorably the
main economic demands of the
union.
Bambrick JUstifies Delay
Speaking before 5000 workers at
a membership meeting of the union
Wednesday night James j. Bam-
brick, president of the union, JUS
titled the delay in the decision of
the arbitration board on the basis
of his rejection of some dangerous
foundations" in the agreement.
Efforts of members of the union
to get the floor at the meeting,
which was expected to take strike
vote, we're met with autocratic re-
fusal. A member of the union.
Peter Darck, was thrown out of the
meeting bodily when he requested
the floor to make a motion.
Considerable dissatisfaction was
expressed by the men at the proce-
dure followed by Bambrick in hav-
ing Darck elected and in denying
members the right to make mo-
ton at a union meeting. The COM
plete lack Of democracy in the
union, they felt, was serious detri-
ment to the growth and strengthen
ing of the union.
While making speeches and talk
ing for strike action, union officials,
particularly M. Logan, secretary of
the Harlem Council, was heard dis
couraging strikers who came in re-
porting that they we're successful in
calling other workers out on strike.