Evening star., 1945-09-24
Elevator Strike
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enth avenue, "a stories, and 500
Seventh avenue, 18 stories.
Some noted buildings were un-
affected including the 72-story
Bank of Manhattan Co. Building
the 40-fioor Equitable Building, the
50-story Irving Trust Building and
the Rockefeller Center structures.
Locals BIB and l64 of the AFL
Building Service Employees Interna-
tional Union called the strike when
David Sullivan, president of Local
32-B, gave the signal at $50 am.
Union leaders indicated that un-
less the Midtown Realty Owners As
sociation and the Realty Advisory
Board on Labor Relations met their
demands the strike would spread
throughout Manhattan"
The two locals have $4,000 men,
bers, and if all struck at once, service
in at least 1900 buildings would be
tied up. Union officials claim total
strike also would bring out 5000
nonunion workers, tying up as
many as $500 buildings all together.
For several months the mainte-
nance workers and building owners
have been involved in dispute. To-
days strike resulted from the un-
ions avowed "diSsa tisfaction" with
a War Labor Board settlement.
The WLB's directive gave a $3.50
a week raise to apartment house
employees and decreased weekly
hours of work for employees in all
but turned down demands
for union security, severance pay,
and vacation provisions and
strike and lockout provisions.
Union heads said that under the
WLB plan loft and office building
workers would have their weekly
incomes reduced.
Apartment Houses Not Involved.
The first phase of the walkout in
volved most Of the Office buildings,
but no apartment houses, in the
area bounded by Fourteenth street,
Hudson River, 42nd street and the
East River.
Union officials said a few office
buildings we're unaffected because
the owners have agreed to sign with
u.s."
David Nelson, president of local
1854, announced 600 building superin-
tendents had walked off their jobs
in addition to the 1000 workers.
Swarms of women textile workers
in the garment center around Sixth
avenue and the upper sos stood on
sidewalks, apparently undecided
whether to attempt walking up to
their places of work.
Empire State Lobby Jammed.
Men and women were walking
around with placards. One placard
said:
The average pay will be s28.05
per week. That is why we are on
strike"
Lobbies of the 102-story Empire
State Building were jammed with
undecided Office personnel.
The Empire States observation
tower announced it still was oper
for business, but 1t. Gen. Hugh A
Drum tretired), president of EN-.
pire State, Inc, remarked that in al
the Is years of the buildings exist.
ence only one person ever hae
walked all the way up.
Mail deliveries to tall building.
were hampered. Postmen segregated
mail for tenants in packages anc
left the bundles in Hobbies.
WOR Studios Affected.
Radio Station WOR, headquarter.
for the Mutual network, had to shu
down its main studios on the 24tf
and 25th floors at 1440 Broadway
except for news broadcasts. Othel
programs were shifted to studios IL
the. Guild and Longacre Theaters
The building at $40 Seventh ave.
nue., where the union has its head.
quarters on the 25th floor was un.
affected by the first phase of tn.
walkout.
Rockefeller Center, workshop fol
q, 900 New Workers, said it had 8
separate contract with the unior
and did not expect to have any
strike.