Evening star., 1939-10-29
Cafeteria Employees
Asked 10 Delay Strike
TIL Carmody Returns
Union Leaders Will
Confer Tomorrow, With
WoIkout Due Wednesday

A request that the threatened
strike Wednesday of 800 Welfare
and Recreation Association cafe
terra employees, who aid In daily
luncheon service for more than
$4,000 Government workers, be post
poned has been made by Allen
Johnstone, solicitor for the Federal
Works Agency, The Star learned
last night.
The F. w. A. Official made the re-
quest by telephone, it was under
stood, asking that the walkout be
held in abeyance for two weeks
until John M. Carmody, agency adj
ministrator, returns from a Govern
ment mission to the West Coast.
The association is part Of the
F. w. A.
Jack Mink, business agent of the
United Cafeteria Employees Local
All, said that he had heard of such
a request but that the union was
not in position to comment on the
application last night.
Conference Tomorrow.
He indicated that a conference
of union officials would be held to-
morrow to take the request under
consideration.
Mr.. Mink said, on the other hand,
that barring new developments
within the next two days. the strike
would take place as scheduled.
Capt, F. w. Hoover, secretary and
general manager of the association,
said he talked with Mr.. Johnstone
by telephone yesterday and received
a request that everything possible
be done to postpone the walkout"
pending the return of Mr.. Carmody.
"Of course, We are glad to comply
with that request" he commented.
After all, We aren't the ones going
out on strike"
Capt. Hoover made it clear that
emergency STATS are being organized
to keep the associations cafeterias
open, at least on a part-service basis,
should plans for the walkout actively
materialize. He admitted that some
curtailment of the service was inevi.
table.
Ask Increase in Pay.
Principal point of contention Is a
pay increase of 2l2 cents an hour
asked by the union, an affiliate of
the Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions. The union has put aside its
demand for a union shop.
Capt. Hoover said that the nego-
tiating committee of the associatio1 4
was expected to meet tomorrow
morning, but that to his knowledge
no joint conference with representa-.
tives of the union has been arranged.
The Labor Department concilia-
tion service was reported attempting
to arrange joint parley within the
next two days.
Cafeterias which would be af-
fected by the strike include: Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission,
Twelfth street and Constitution ave-
nue NV; Commerce, Fifteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV;
Interior, Nineteenth and c streets
NV; North Interior, Eighteenth
and F streets NV: Procurement,
Eighth and D streets SW.; Post Of
fice, Twelfth street and Pennsyl.
vania avenue NV: Revenue.
Twelfth street and Constitution
avenue NV: Justice. Ninth street
and Constitution avenue NV: Fed
eral Reserve, Twentieth street and
Constitution avenue NV: Home
Owners Loan Sorp., First street
and 1ndiara avenue NV; Apex,
Seventh street and Constitution
avenue NY: Loans and Currency,
Thirteenth and D streets SW.: Lii
brary of Congress. First and East
Capitol streets: Supreme Court. First
and East Capitol streets: Munitions,
Nineteenth street and Constitution
avenue NV; Civil Service Eighth
and F streets NV: Potomac Park,
Twenty first and C streets NV;
and the Tenth Streets Cafe
terra.
The 10 lunch counters affected
would be: General Accounting; e"
Building. Sixth street and Adams
drive NV; Reconstruction Finance
Corp, 1925 H street NV; State
Building, Treasury Building; Farm
Credit, 1900 E street NV; Treasury
Annex, Fifteenth street and Madi-
son place NV; Central Kitchen,
1l35 Twenty-first street NV: Ma
tional Health Institute, Bethesda.
Md and War Annex No. !, 4Ol
TWentv-third street NV.