Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 36 | Union Butchers in East Strike

tiou members a? "literally teeming vii ii i extraordinary propositions whjcb show soviet and Bolshevist LeiKlencics." Among other 'tiling's, they declared the men professed a willingness to work on j American Independence da', bat hot on j May l, the official holiday of the International Inter-national Socialist organization. I according to toe proprietors, owing to the 1 strike of uuU-her.s and drivers which went into effect In Brook lyu and -Manhattan today. Recognition of their union is the one demand on which the strikers' unite. Wage increases aj.M hours of labor aeked for vary. The demands were put forward by 1000 butchers, drivers ami delicatessen salesmen sales-men and were characterized by associa- union mm ii pi Men at Chicago and New York Would Enforce Their Demands. CHICAGO. Xov. 1. Demanding a $l) weekly wage increase, nearly 400 meat butchers went on strike today. ' The present pres-ent weekly union scale is $30. There are TOO members in the union, but ofticials said the master butchers wove signing up su Lii;idly that it would be unnecessary to nn: all union butrhors. The public was Mt lie iii''onveiHt'i.'''d by the strike, as ihf tfiitchora were called out in sections, thus giving people an opportunity to make PUPcUases ft r Sunday dinner. NKW "YORK. Nov. 1.- Thousands of pounds of meat iu butcher shops and packing bpjis&fl masjjaave to be destroyed. i