The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
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SCHEDULE OF WAGES

Working fOremen: So above av-
erage weekly day of routemen at
each branch; Route and Vacation
Relief: $3 above average weekly
pay of rOutemen at each branch !;
Routemen: $22 per week plus 40
on Retail sales, plus 4@o on Retail
collections, plus 3 90 on Retail sales
over 1915 per week, plus SO on
Wholesale sales.
WHOLESALE BRANCHES
Senior FOremen: Sc per week
above average weekly pay of whole
sale rOutemen at each branch; Re-
lief Men: So above average; Route
men: $45 plus NE commission
on sales, including cOmpany-owned
stores.
ICE CREAM
Foremen: SIS per week above
average weekly pay of routemen;
ROutemen: $35 week plus &c per
gallon plus zc per gallon on de-
liveries to cOmpany-Owned stores.
Route Supplymen: $34-$39.5O.
Milk Haulers and Branch Haul
ers: $43-$46.
Relief and Vacation Men: $40
$40.
BRANCH MEN
Utility Men: Day hourly rate,
TIC, night hourly rate, Use; Watch
men: day hourly rate, 67c, night
hourly rate, Use. Time and one
half for over 40 hours per week.
All employees guaranteed 48 hours
per week.
HANDY MEN
End Glass: minimum, Toe, maxi
mum 86c; LIST Class: minimum
BIC, maximum 99c.
New men to receive wage rates
of men they replace for duration
of war.
PASTEURIZINC PLANTS
minimum and Maximum Rates,
respectively
Working FOremen, 9lc-94c; Va
cation men: 85c-88c; Pasteurizing
men: 85c-88c; Glass and Bottle
Filler men: 75c-8Oc; Bottle Load
ers: 75c-8Oc; Paper Filler men,
Shippers and Milk Weighers: 75c-
8Oc; Utility men: 72c-75c.
Relief men to receive &c per
hour more than the men they re-
Iieve. Time and One-half for over
40 hours per week. All employees
guaranteed 48 hours per week.
PLANT MAINTENANCE AND
REPAIR MEN
3rd Glass Mechanic: hourly rate,
69c: End Class Mechanic: Zoe; Isl
Glass Mechanic: soc; Working
FOremen: Csc to $l.O5.
Men who work nights to receive
Sc an hour more.
Time and One-haf for over 40
hours per week. All employees guar
anteed 48 hours per week. Starting
rate for first three months for
merly applying to Route Supply
men, Milk Haulers and Utility men
eliminated for duration of war.
WAR BOND SALES BOOSTED
If plans of Local 1915 Service
Mems Welfare Committee are ap-
proved so per cent of the increased
wages will go into War Bonds. This
Committee which has developed a
program of aid for the unions men,
bers in the armed forces, has pushed
sales of War Bonds and Stamps, and
has furthered the Red Cross blood
donor campaign and other war activi-
ties is differed by Howard Abramson,
John ]. Kelly and William Helmerich.
Secretary Treasurer Murphy fur
Their announced that Acting Wage
Sterilization Director G. Reginald
Crosby of the Boston National Labor
Board office had notified the union
that Mitchell Dairy's employees at the
Middletown branch, recently organ
lied, would receive increases in pay
bringing them up to the Bridgeport
scale, retroactive to December l, 1912,
as a result of the Boards approval of
an agreement jointly reached between
Local 1o1 and Mitchell Dairy. These
employees will now enjoy the same
union benefits as Mitchell Dairy en-
ployees in all other branches.
NEW ORGANIZING EFFORTS
Although Local l9l has made
marked gains since Mitchell Dairy
was uniOnized years ago both
i'm charging the number of its
members and in raising their pay
and improving their working con-
ditiOns, it is not resting upon its
laurels. The unions officers are
bending their efforts energetically
to organize the Sagal-Lou and New
Haven Diaries. They have filed with
Governor Raymond E. Baldwin
complaints of unfair labor prac-
tees pursued by these companies,
and are taking measures for the
protection of Local I9l members
in the employ of these diaries.
In this the union has received the
full cooperation of the Connecticut
Federation of Labor, through Secre-
Treasurer John J. Egan, Presi
dent James J. Clerkin and Assistan
Secretary Thomas Shea.
INDIVIDUALS HELPLESS
The handsome wage increase:
achieved for Mitchell Dairy EN-
pIoyes are expected TO stimulate
organization among the inorganic
ed workers i'm the dairy industry
Local 19l is telling them tina
workers individually cannot invoke
the services of the War Labor BoarC