Show UNION U ION LOOKING AFTER I l VLADIVOSTOK COOKS I 4 April 16 This This professional pro pro- I union of cooks cooks' was founded in inS In September S 1917 an and members at at present numb number r of or which only I about half halt pay subscription which Is is' is explained by the fact tact that about one I to to three of 01 the tile members deceive e no 1 salary latel lately or If it they receive c an anything any any- thing It Is about half and consequently consequently conse conse- consequently I cannot pay their subscription About one to five flYe of ot the members are experienced cooks who find tind themselves them- them selves relves in a very impoverished state and nd live e in the suburbs in a poor way often otten several se men in one room There are on only I three women cooks In Inthe Inthe the tho union The members are mostly almost illiterate a few tev literate literati but no more than 3 Z per cent quite ate To be ba able to help one another the they work In shifts at various places 1 until they find work elsewhere Th The union urges Its members to education and progress to lift themselves them hem em- em selves out of ot their habits of ot former times |