Evening star., 1947-12-10
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Sanitary Measure in
Reply to Union Charge

1dpoI anu rendering SCrlKe- |
breaking service to manage
ment" by providing trash and
garbage collections at Fairling-
ton, large apartment project
where employees now are in their
third day of a strike.
A county government official
quickly rejoined that the service is
being maintained for sanitary and
health reasons.
Although Fairmac Corp, owners
OF darlington, issued a statement
today declaring sufficient replace
ments now are on the job to insure
uninterrupted service" County Man
ager A. T. Lundberg would not say
when the county expected to with
draw its two trucks and eight en-
ployes Of the street cleaning divi-
sion from the housing project.
Held Hostile to Labor.
A spokesman for Local 80, AFL
Building Service Employees Union,
declared:
The union regards the action of
Arlington County as hostile toward
labor and as rendering management
strike breaking service"
He said protests to the county
would be made.
At the same time Lawrence Michael
of the Arlington Republican Com
mittee said the committee last night
passed resolution, introduced by
himself, which condemned the
practice of the county manager "in
acting as strike breaker by fur
nishing county equipment" to Fair
lington.
Mr.. Lundberg was asked whether
the county or the corporation would
take the initiative in determining
when darlington garbage and trash
collections could be resumed by the
private corporation.
I'VE went in there" said the
county manager, ION a temporary
basis and for health and sanitary
reasons. We have not been notified
that our services no longer are
needed. We only went in there
with the trucks yesterday"
Eight More Join Strike.
Charles E. V. Prins, public rela-
tions representative for Fairmac,
when questioned along the same
line, declared the corporation is
ready to resume these services
whenever the county withdraws its
trucks but said no request for their
withdrawal had been made.
Neither side would accept respon-
sibility for taking the initiative in
bringing an end to use of public |
property in the $43,600, 900 private
project.
These Developments came with |
the announcement that eight more
maintenance workers who had
stayed on their jobs despite the
strike which began Monday, now
have Joined the strikers.
John Goodman, international vice
president of the union, said the
eight had Joined the forces that
have maintained picket lines in
front of the administration build
ing and some of the 40 central
heating units.
Donations to Strikers Reported.
quite a few" of the projects
estimated $4,000 tenants have made
donations of cash and food to the
strikers and have offered support,
Mr.. Goodman said. The union dis
tributed handbills asking aid on the
first day of the walkout.
William ziegler, general manager
of the project, issued the following
statement:
There has not been the slightest
breakdown in essential services to
darlington tenants.
Sufficient requirements now are
on the job to insure uninterrupted
service.
Friday will be the first of the
semimonthly paydays on which
darlington workers will receive re-
Gently announced increases ranging
from 500 to $3.50 annually. Janitors
now receive $3.50 a year and fire.
men who tend automatic stokers,
$2,275. These guaranteed annual
wages are the highest paid by any
other development in the area and
also are higher than the wages paid
by the Government during the four
years it operated darlington.
Get 2-Week Vacations.
I'm addition, regular darlington
workers receive two weeks vacation
with pay, $1,000 to 5000 free life
insurance, time-and-a-half for over
time and retroactive pay increases
IN Last 0ptnhor n ,v,La,, %ho r,.
Corp. became the owners of Fair
lington"
Main issues of the dispute center
on wage increases of 20 cents an
hour with overtime scale for more
than eight hours in day; a 40-hour
week, and vacation, holiday and sick
leave pay.
Earlier, Samuel Levine of Wash
tngton, attorney for the union, ac-
cused the owners of union busting"
tactics. He said wage increases,
which the company has until now
led the public to believe it has been
paying, never had been paid and
were offered certain employees be-
hind the backs of their chosen nego-
tlating committee as an inducement
to abandon the union. Mr.. Ziegler
has underestimated the intelligence
and integrity of the employees"
R. M. Writ, Arlington County
Sanitary Department superinten-
dent, said the arrangement with
the trucks hauling trash and garbage
could not be continued beyond the
end Of the week. A street-cleaning
crew Is being diverted to do the
Job, he said
1t. Col. Everett L. Butler, 3043
South Buchanan street, president of
the darlington Citizens Associa-
ton, said his Executive Committee
had agreed to refrain from entering
the labor dispute, but expressed its
concern over maintenance of trash,