Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
DeIicatessen Charges
Ban by Drivers Union
Over Dispute on Bill

yesterday that a dispute with a
bakery over q claimed $3.50 credit
on = $50 bill has resulted in a
drivers union ban against delivery
OF any bakery products to the deli
catessen.
Mrs. A. Wagshal, owner Of Wag-
shal's Delicatessen. 1855 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, asked Dis
trict Court to enjoin the Bakery
Sales Drivers Local Union No. SO
from carrying on its alleged boy
colt. and give her 100000 damages
Charles NJ Andre, president of
the union, who also was named a
defendant in the suit, said War
Food Administration order pro-
hibited granting the credit claimed
by Mrs. Wagshal in settlement of
the bill for which the union driver
Is held responsible by his bakery
Practice Of 40 Years.
The boycott preventing delivery
of bread and other products to the
delicatessen by any other bakeries
until the matter Is settled is a type
of practice we've been engaging in
for 40 years." MFR. Andre said. He
added that I'VE more or less well
come the suit"
Benjamin Wagshal, son of the
delicatessen owner, said the trouble
began about six weeks ago in a.
dispute with the driver for bakery
which had been supplying the deli
cateSsen for several years.
He said the driver, who had been
urged to make deliveries before III
am, came in one Friday with a
large order of bread about 1890
pm, when the place was too
crowded to accept delivery, and he
asked him to delay the delivery until
later in the afternoon.
Further Deliveries Refused.
Later, he said, the bakery owner
informed him the driver refused to
make any further deliveries because
of the dispute. Mr.. Wagshal said
he then shifted his business else
where, but asked the bakery owner
to come to the delicatessen to check
up on alleged short weight in the
last delivery received.
The bakery owner never came !
Mr.. Wagshal said, and instead he
received threat that unless he set
tied the bill of approximately $3.50
in full it would be turned over to
the union, which would stop deliv-
cry of any bread.
MIR. Andre came into the dehca-
lessen a few days later, Mr.. Wag-
shall continued, and claimed that
the full amount was owed to the
driver-since he was charged for it
by the bakery.
Mr.. Wagshal said accounts al
ways had been settled direct with
the bakery. and he then mailed the
bakery check for the amount of
the bill, less $3.50, which he claimed
AS an allowance for the alleged short
weight.
Called for Full Payment.
The bakery turned the check over
to the union, he said, and it was
returned to the delicatessen by Mr..
Andre with a letter insisting that no
credit could be allowed and the bill
must be paid In full.
In the meantime, Mr.. Wagshal
said, he was ordering bread from
other bakeries, sometimes getting
service for a week, but one after an
other all abruptly stopped sales to
him, even when he arranged to pick
up his orders instead of having
them delivered. Some bakery officials
told him, he said, that the union had
threatened to pull off all their driv-
ers" if they did any business with
the Wagshal delicatessen, while 9TH
ers evaded the issue. Orders were
shut off by about 10 bakeries, he
said.
Even neighboring retail grocery
received a union warning that all
its bread deliveries would be cut
of If it sold any bread at all to
any one connected with the deli
catessen, Mr.. Wagshal said.
Fighting "On Principle"
He added he had been assured
the union would call off its boycott
as soon as the original bakery bill
was settled IN full, but that his
mother, while not concerned about
the $3.50 difference involved, was
determined to fight the thing
through ION principle"
Mr.. Wagshal said he had not
been familiar with the VIA order
cited by Mr.. Andre as forbidding
bakeries to grant such credits
as claimed, but had received such
allowances numerous times in past
months.
= Mr.. Andre said the union con-
sidered 1t would be "a criminal of
tense" to allow the credit claimed
by the delicatessen.