LABOR NEWS

LABOR NEWS -rtAM ENGINEERS PRESENT NEW DEMANDS TO EMPLOYERS 8,000 memberi at t h e Inter_ Union of Steam and OperEngineer* in this city of i M>, 66 a nd 670 have presented • to t h e...

...P r i n t e r s To Meet In September The General Council of t h e International Secretariat of P r i n t e r s has decided to hold the ninth international printers' congress in Hamburg immediately following the German printers' convention...
...Th* Bakers' Unions appeals to the pubue to help in their struggle to lndos* the above shops to become Knee P a a t s UaioSJ Secretary Morn* Roeenieid, who has held a number of Important oeVeee i a taw Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union, ha* boon elected secretary of t h a Knee P a n t s " Union, Local 19...
...LABOR NEWS -rtAM ENGINEERS PRESENT NEW DEMANDS TO EMPLOYERS 8,000 memberi at t h e Inter_ Union of Steam and OperEngineer* in this city of i M>, 66 a nd 670 have presented • to t h e owners of ref r i g e r a t - nts for a nine-dollar day and hours a day for six days a According to Fred Baucher who is #r*tary of Local 66 i n Brooklyn, agineers are among the most paid and overworked mecbgagt of all the skilled workers In t b t d t y . None of t h e workers in t he - " a f trades get leas t h a n $10.60 and many get more...
...R. A G., 262 East IStth street, Wllner, 1074 Second avsnuej Schwarte, 1507 F i r s t avenue and Spector, 27 Rivington street...
...Justice Giegerich, in hia opinion, said: "The plaintiff is being deprived of his r i g h t to earn his livelihood, and the means provided within the organisation, if any, for an appeal or review of the action which prevents his securing employment a r e so expensive to pursue, and involve such a lapse of time, t h s t to relegate him to those remedies would be s substantial denial of justice...
...According to William Lehman, tscrsUiy of t h e union, vigorous action will be taken against those estsblishments that do not sign an agreement with the union by June 1st...
...It will open on September 8. Pari* Mldinettes Win Raise Due to t h e s t r e n g t h e n i n g of their union and their threat of a strike, the girl millinery workers of Paris recently won an immediate wage increase of 7 per cent, to be followed by a readjustment of wages to t he cost of living based on the index figure of the first quarter of this year, and f o u r t e e n paid holidays annually...
...s f Union Makes New Demands fhs Waiters' and Waitresses' Union, Local 1, of the Hotel and Res taarsnt Employes' International Alassoe, has sent i t s new demands to ths New York Restaurant Keepers' ation as i t s present agreement w w i May 3 1 . Within a few days j independent restaurant estab_..m«nts will also receive the anion's new terms...
...Shorr, 151 St...
...The union secretary reported t h i s to t he g i r l s at a masked ball they were giving...
...by declaring strikes against them...
...Among the workers' new demands art the following: a fifteen per cent Increase in wages, a 100 per cent unionised restaurant with all other hilp employed besides t h e waiters, turn as countermen, and all kitchen help, snd a cash security from employers to enforce the c a r r y i n g out of the agreement...
...The Union has moved to larger q u a r t e r s and is now located st 2 Stuyvesent place, where other locals of the Amalgamated are located...
...INJUNCTION FOR SIMONS Supreme Court Justice Giegerich hat granted an injunction to David Simons, former president of the dissolved local union of-printing pressmen, restraining Major George L. Berry, as president of the international union, from stating t o anyone that Simons ia not a member of the union in good Standing, from interfering with him in any employment he may obtain as a pressman, and from catling out any members of the union where Simons m a / be employed...
...Yet t he airs who muat be h i g h l y skilled sweating for a meager living wage at a time when their employers are charting top-notch prices for their products . The anion is making preparations far a rigorous strike if necessary |» enforce its j u s t demands...
...Then t h e music s t r u c k up and, t h e ball went on...
...The dancing stopped for * few minutes t o allow the modistes to vote for a s t r i k e in case of necessity...
...LABOR JOTTINGS FROM ABROAD Radio in Anti-War Campaign The Amsterdam Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Union* announce* t h a t it intends to make free uae of the radio in connection with the Anti-War demon st r a t ions on September 21...
...While negotiations with the employers' association was under way a deadlock was reached...
...Ann's avenue...
...Bakera Strike Against Six Shops Nesrly all t h e bakery shops' having worked under an agreement with ths New York locals of t h e Bakery snd Confectionery Workers' International, have renewed their agreements with the exception of the following *six shops: Flakowitz, 893 Interval* avenue...

Vol. 1 • May 1924 • No. 17


 
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