Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-02 | Page 8 | Las Vegas Dealer Local Begins Picket of Club

Break With Council j. rv Las Vegas Dealer Local Begins Picket of Club Special to the Telegram LAS VEGAS, Nev., July The long -smoldering organisation effort ef-fort to unionise gambling hall dealers here came to a head Friday Fri-day night as the Mutuel Clerks and Gambling Dealers, local 21 (AFL) established a picket una la front of the Eldorado club la the heart of downtown Las Vegas. In so doing, ths local union, aa affiliate of the Building Service Employes International, broke with the Clark County Central Labor council, which had denied sanction sanc-tion for the dealers to establish a1 picket line. No noticeable effect aaa aeeo at the Eldorado club because of the two-man picket line, which will be maintained 24 hours s day, according ac-cording to one of the picketera. j Dus to failure of the central labor la-bor council to authorize the picket 1 line, members of other AFL crafts ( at the club were instructed by , their leaders to disregard the dealers" deal-ers" pickets, and all want through the linee. These included principally princi-pally bartenders and culinary workers, but a renovation program at Um club also necessitates em-pioyident em-pioyident of several members of the building trades. Edward Moss, one of the Eldorado Eldo-rado club owners, reported that all of his dealers reported for duty despite the pickets, and he denied that any of them ars affiliated with the union. Theodore Feidman, president of the Mutuel Clerks and Gambling 1 Dealers union, waa not available ' for comment The pickets said the strike waa ordered by their international, t while a central labol council of- j ficial claimed sanction waa withheld with-held since the local had faded to I carry out an eight-point program j by which council members are I bound baton sailing a walkout j 4