Show Bartenders City's Prize Optimists Continue to Maintain Union Here Three fingers of Old Crow Os Os- car This once familiar order and the bartender who filled it arc are but fadIng fadIng fading fad- fad Ing memories of 01 dasto days das to most Salt Lakers as is the time old bartenders' bartenders union But believe it or not that union still sUll exists Deserving the title Americas most optimistic people a loyal 1011 group of bartenders keeps alive the Bartenders Bartenders' Bartenders Bartenders' Bartenders Bartenders' Bar Bar- tenders' tenders International Alliance Salt Lake local No althou although h more than 15 years have passed since prohibitIon prohibition pro pro- came to Utah They pay dues and arc are entitled to sick and death benefits With prohibition looming as an Issue in this political campaign perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps we haven't been as tie tic as it appears appeal one member of the union declared Time has tal taken en its toll however ever and even the most optimistic of the retired bartenders sighs with melancholy melan- melan choly holy as he notes there are but 11 members left a aTar afar afar far Tar cry from the men who once filled the local union roll roil Death and changes of resi res residence dence have cut the membership from 4 iti I two fifty to eleven cleven In the past five yea years rs The organization has not held a reSI reg reS- I ular meeting for two years according to Fritz Frantz rantz for ten years cars the president Bring Brin back saloon days You bet betI I would for tor Salt Lake was better off with its saloons than it is with its thousand and more speakeasies a time one barkeeper said pounding on ona ona ona his sentiments a table to emphasize But my pep Is gone and even if the old days come back I am too old to stand up under the grind of bar bar- keeping he added sadly explaining that when he and his partner used to serve a foot 60 bar it was nil all they could do doto to get their breath much less rest resl Ninety per cent of the boys who used to serve drinks were God fear ing tax paying citizens less inclined to drink than were those they served another former barkeeper explained Brewery men who cared little about the type of man they set up in business providing he could put up a little money in advance were sible for the bad name that bartend bartend- bartenders ers got in some quarters he said Most of oC the men in the union found a new trade when became soda Jerking but arc are keeping up in their payments The local group moreover is not alone in this fight ficht to keep alive old times for tor 35 chapters of the bartenders bartenders bartenders' bartend ers' ers alliance are arc listed In good standIng standing stand stand- ing in various cities throughout the country according to the February issue of the alliance magazine the Catering Industry I |