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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1937 Berkeley housekeeping roomr, Settlement of S. F. Hotel BErkeley 2440 rented to one 3 LONGSHOREMEN MILK DRIVERS Notice of County Workers9 Wage Meet Proves Mystery seven Tribune readers answering Want-Ad. Strike Lags; Parleys Off I II TRUCKS III ASK TE SACRAMENTO MW TIE-UP IS AVEDTED A meeting of Alameda County (Continued from Page I) employees who want wage in B. AXEL OVLEN operatinr fully and we hope to socialite guests as permanent resi RE creases may be held at the new Court House tomorrow night, but it won't be a meeting of the Alameda II STRIKE I IN ST dents.

TAILOR continue to do so." Toy explained that the strike dif County Employees' Association, This was the declaration today of Gerald M. Lawlor, president of the Widespread were the effects of the strike. Week-end events scheduled In the hotels were all cancelled, and some cancellations of banquets, concerts and card parties were made for this week. Pickets Surround All Major Studios, but Stars Report who urged all county employees to disregard, a mimeographed notice calling the meeting 30-Day Agreement Reached To Halt Walkout; final Pact Will Be Retroactive New woolens, carefully selected in dignified patterns for either business or sports occasions now on display! One hundred members of the Phil After Guild Delays Action adelphia Symphony Orchestra ar clation's executive committee meeting, regularly scheduled for the first Tuesday in each month, will not be held tomorrow but will be postponed. The anonymous meeting notices which were mailed to and distributed among employees said, in part: "Many employees of Alameda County are and much injustice is thereby suffered." The Board of Supervisors now is working on the new salary- ordinance, which will fix.

the payroll for the coming year. The principal wage demand that has been made on the supervisors came from a newly-organized group of hospital janitors, maids and orderlies. It was reported that if the demand were granted it would raise the annual cost of operation of county institutions $380,000, or nearly 10 cents on the tax rate. rived in San Francisco for a four-day stay, and found themselves (Continued From Page .) and signed only "committee. Lawlor addressed a letter to all employees explaining that the meeting was not called by the association or Its executive committee.

He also said that the as so- unable to stay at the large hotels a cursory count made by newspa that they usually chose. Most went to smaller hotels that are not affected, while a few remained in PullmaA cars. permen. Smith said his committee was considering offers of picketing help from several unions. He said he had found "definite evidences of strikebreaking." SACRAMENTO, May 3.

-Possible tie-up of the baking industry in the capital appeared averted today with a temporary 30-day agreement reached between negotiators for employees and employers following a 10-hour conference. "Attempts to reach a permanent settlement will be continued during the 30-day period, G. A. Warren, secretary of the Bakery Workers Union, said and any agreement reached will be retroactive to this date. Top Floor Henshaw Building Cor.

14th and Broadway Entrance on 14th Street "During the night the studios Deliverymen in S. F. Vote Walkout 646 to Union Rsquestg $185 a Month San Francisco milk wagon drivers today sought approval of the Teamster's Union of strike voted 648 to 9 at a mass meeting of the drivers yesterday. Approval of the union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters must be obtained before a strike can be called, according to Fred J. Wettstein, union secretary.

"If approval is granted," Wettstein said, "there will be little delay before the strike Is called by our executive committee." The joint council of the union is scheduled to meet tonight. The milk drivers are demanding a pay increase of $15 a month over the present monthly rate of $170. They also demand that deliveries start at 8 a. m. instead of 9 a.

m. Granting the increase will raise the price of milk, according to John Marshall secretary of the Milk Dealers' Association. "Both the farmers and the labor rushed in many makeup artists and several truckloads of painters INNER FIGHT ficulties are with the culinary unions, and that the hotels that are members of his association lease out their restaurants and hence have no problem. The culinary workers, associated with the newly-organized Clerks' Union, previously had threatened a strike April 17. This-was averted when the employers made concessions to union demands.

They said they could not, however, include the clerks in the agreement for a 40-hour week and preferential hiring. This one issue, which concerns only about 150 men and women, led to the strike of the entire "group of six unions. Pickets were thrown about the hotels and other union workers left the buildings. None of the affiliates of the Central Labor Council, which is supporting the strike, will pass the picket lines. Private guards of the hotels closed most of the entrances as soon as the strike was called.

In most cases a single entrance was left open. No new guests were permitted to enter, nor any persons except those having business inside. DINING ROOMS IN MOST PLACES CLOSE Refrigeration was closed down in some of the buildings and perishable supplies were given to the Salvation Army. Only one or two, of the hotels made any attempt to supply Smith said. "These workers were passed through the thin picket lines sometime late last night." JOB HUNTERS SEEK ADMISSION TO LOTS SEATTLE.

Mav 3. (flV-Welcom ing 150 delegates to the Pacific Coast McDowell said many persons were takine advantage of the walk district convention oi tne inter national T.nneshoreihen's Associa Downtown Hotels Here Care for New Arrivals While- downtown Oakland hotels reported increased registration of San Francisco guests over the week-end, due to the transbay hotel strike, the majority of Oakland hostelries said that there was little increase above normal registration of guests. A number of social and business events, however, orginally sched-pled for San Francisco hotels, were transferred to Oakland. Among these events were the Mills College student body dance, the Holy Names College dance and the six-day sales meeting of the Goodyear Tire Company's Pacjffic Coast agents, The' "Hotel Oakland reported a capacity house. The Claremont, Whitecotton and St.

Mark all noted slight increases in registrations from out to further their individual RIDER KILLED AUBURN, May 3. (JPh-John L. Walker, 20, Hastings, who was employed as an apprentice machinist at Sparks, Nev died here yesterday from injuries received In a motorcycle accident near Don-ner Summit Walker's motorcycle skidded, throwing him against an embankment. tion. Mavor John F.

Dore warned causes. He said many women ap today the public will not stand by and see its interests jeopardized by intprunion warfare. plied to him for permission to enter the studio gate, saying they were telephone operators Others, he said, identified themselves as make- He urged that unionists end' juris a( 4 nn nrtists. dictional strife, and referred to tne controversy between the Alaska Cannery Workers and Farm Labor "Thev nil wanted to Bet in touch wHh thp nersonnel manager," said SWAN LTD SHERWOOD ers' Union, backed by tne Maritime ireriprAtion district council, and Mnrinwpll. The spreading strike involved CHOOSE added: ers are asking for more money." he said, "aijd the distributors can't absorb tftenncreases.

Also we can't change the starting hour because we can't reform the thousands of people who want their milk for breakfast." 6000 workers today. mm "The fact that Alaska shipping is tied bv'a fight between-: PANAMA PACIFIC meals. One of these was the Fairmont Hotel, which has many elderly San Francisco, but had no marked Increase in queries. unions of the American Federation The 6000 members of 11 unions of me Federated Motion Picture Crafts were ordered" not to report ttf work this morning and 3500 of them were assigned to picket rlnlv. of Labor is a blow to the wnoie SPECIALS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 4 labor movement." Merced Sheriff Asks President Harry Bridges, San am Francisco, responding, said he believed the convention would do Basis of the dispute, which first flarec" into a strike last Friday Union Gets Permit to Open Contra Costa Member Drive MARTINEZ, May 3.

Con trae specify that only persons enrolled nieht. is the federated crafts de KijftllUMIt-CltlAMtB 1-b- iin mand on nine major companies for everything in. its power to eliminate jurisdictional controversies. He and other leaders told interviewers the convention will last a week to 10 days and that it is too early to hazard what policies may be or Armored Car MERCED, May 3. Anticipating farm labor troubles, Sheriff N.

L. Cornell today had asked the Board of Supervisors for an emergency appropriation to purchase an armored automobile, equip all cars with radios, buy gas masks and additional gas supplies. sole bargaining rights. in the new union will be employed Save 25 NOW (over summer rates) round trip toNtw York viaAcapulco, Mexico, Panama, Havana on giant S. S.

California, Virginia Pennsylvania Famed for hospitality are Panama Pacific liners the largest scioofiesr-cruising through the Panama Canal I And shore visits at tropic ports (Acapulco, Balboa, Cris Saying "the dress rehearsal is over," Charles C. Lessing of the crafts arranged picket lines not only at the nine studios but at los Angeles theaters showinr their product. And for the first time in years, adopted. Railroad Unions IS-oi, tin Del Monte GRAPEFRUIT JUICE 6Vic In asking for the emergency ap-J propriation, Sheriff Cornell told tne Discuss S. P.

Status supervisors: "I am thinking about 4- rrr Rm11 sire Sehrsders ANT POWDER United States' twn-biUion-lol- the recent outbreak at htocKion. we must have modern equipment and a large force of deputies to cope with lar motion picture industry faced a Costa County Board of Supervisors today granted the county's Building Trades Council authority to all and maintenance men on county projects. The authority was granted on the plea of Russ Roberts, business representative of the Building Trades Council. Roberts said the organization would include all road workers Employed by the county, all employed on private contracts let by the county and all persons engaged in county building maintenance. In the future, Roberts announced, all contracts let by the council will serious production stoppage.

Two thousand actors and ac by successful contractors. The action followed a one-day tie-up of the Bayshore Highway project near Richmond and the Broadway tunnel approach between Orinda and Walnut Creek. The tie-up occurred Saturday when teamsters struck because the Union Paving Company employed union teamsters belonging to the Teamsters' Union in Alameda County. The new set-up, according to Roberts, will preclude occurrence of similar misunderstandings. The Building Trades Council Is chartered by the American Federation of Labor.

labor difficulties." NIPPY SAUCE. 3 tins 10c SAL-SODA, pkg 6 Vic The supervisors indicated they tresses, some unknown, others famous, but all aligned with the will decide on the sheriff's request Screen Actors' Guild, attended late today. The supervisors, recently adopted an anti-picketing crucial meeting at the Legion Fight ordinance. fsklppr Peanut Stadium here last night to vote on Shredded ADVENTURE IN MEXICO! Round trip by set. Special-plan two and three week tours inland from Acapulco.

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GUILD HESITANT ON CALLING OUT 40,000 In an attempt to expedite a hearing before an emergency board named by President Roosevelt in the threatened Southern Pacific strike, representatives of railroad brotherhoods met today to determine whether any of the 39 cases still unheard by the board could be settled. The board, which is required to report to the President by May 14, asked unions to attempt to settle some of the disputes without its assistance. The inter-union conference was held in the ederal Building in San Francisco after the hotel strike forced discontinuation of sessions at the William Taylor Hotel. Shrine Birthday Rslsfcn paeksi lOIc l2-oi. etn.

Partly Abandoned PARKER DAM, May 3. P) A Like the federated crafts, the 12: tm flnlld is seeking a closed shop. It Longshoremen Tie Up Ship on East Coast hesitated, however, at a decision Committee for Industrial Organization strike begunlO day ago resulted today in the suspension of which would throw persons PHILADELPHIA, May 3. (Fj out of work and stop a weekly pay roll of $1,500,000. work for the Summer on the in -o.

tin TOMATO PASTE Machine Operators Ask Strike Permit Request for strike sanction will be made at toniglft's meeting of the San Francisco Labor-. Council executive committee by Production Operators and Miscellaneous Metal Workers Union No. 20.444, according 4c take and Gene Wash Pumping A strike of 500 longshoremen employed by the United Fruit Company ancT the Standard Fruit and TWO WEEKS TO NEW YORK-from 1125 Tourirt Ctbin; Flrat CUu from $225 (1230 it certain mioni). ttlfc reduction en round trip br steamer. "Circle Toiira" by rail or water from your home town: fa either war by steamer.

Alto ateamer-plane tours. Tin of Hrrb-ox BOUILLON CUBES Frank Gillmore, head of the Actors' Equity, parent of the Guild, flew to Hollywood from New York to attend the meeting. A few score fans gathered outside the Steamship Company tied up the Ball Is Postponed plants, emoloying about 550 men, The J. F. Shea Construction Company, employing more than 500 men on Parker Dam, announced that those who did not return to work today would be replaced.

This com-nanv has an agreement with the SILK TISSUE, 3c Write, ask your Travel Agent or call to Thomas Rotell, member of the Officials of the Islam Shrine Tern Stadium doors. Stars refused to pose for pictures. A Guild card was No. 1 tall tin Alanka CHUM SALMON pie in San Francisco announced today a birthday ball scheduled for .8 Vie. United Company's steamship Castillo today.

Spokesmen for the International Longshoremen's Association said the strike was called in a demand for union deep-water scale pay of $1 an hour and $1.50 for American Federation of Labor for resumption of operations. IFhmmalFkcific, The C. I. O. has demanded an ln- union organizing committee.

Rotell said the union has negotiated with employers five weeks on a demand for a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour and classification of semi-skilled workers. He said employers rejected union recognition and other basic demands. The union claims a membership of more than 800. tomorrow -had been indefinitely postponed because of San Francisco's hotel strike, Guests were expected from Los Angeles, Sacramento and Oakland, i i Bartlett crease in wages oi i a nay ana recognition as the sole bargaining DOugtas 86S0-665 Market Street, San Frincisce Pears necessary to gain admission. In attendance were Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Edna May Oliver, Lee Tracy, Paul Muni, Chester Morris, Cary Grant, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh, Richard Dix, Edward Arnold, Elissa Landi, Edmund Lowe, Allen Jenkins, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and other celebrities.

President Robert Montgomery presided. agency. Chans ft Sanborn Dated Ccffca l-lb. baf 24s No. 1 tin Benefit to Be Given itrd tall I dentrd tall 4 i wnfi Pfoi Despite Hotel Row BY S.

S. VA'I DlilE "Hotel strike or no strike, Call fornia's babies must be remem Producers have' declined to grant Kansas City's Bread Cut Off by Strike KANSAS CITY, May 3. JPh-Fourteen of this city's largest bakeries were closed today by a strike of union bakery workers, de bered," was the statement of the Homeless Children Committee of Placards Stolen While Pickets Lunch SAN JOSE, May 3. Pickets who walk back and forth in front of places branded by unions as "unfair" to labor have their troubles, too, it was disclosed today. V.

J. Lazzari, business agent for the local Retail Clerks complained to police that during a lull in picketing of a North Market Street store pickets laid down their "unfair" signs and went to lunch. When they returned, Lazzari said, the signs had the Federated Crafts a closed shop until wage and hour demands are the Native Sons and Daughters of No. 9 tin BUTTER BEANS No. 1 Ull tin CARROTS tr PEAS.

5c 8-01. tin Dodre FANCY SPINACH Pint bottle Pure CIDER VINECAR the Golden West, in announcing SOMES All HOUR! the transfer of its Whist-Dansant tonight to the main auditorium of the Native Sons' Building, at 414 submitted. Pat labor conciliator for the producers, issued a prepared statement, stating that "all regular activities are being continued as usual in the studios. The condition S. S.

VAN DINE CiUbrafd author of popular mytiory manding higher wages and union recognition. Frank Rushton, president of the Kansas City Wholesale Bakers' Club, said 90 per cent of the metropolitan bread supply was HOST HAD THEIR A1EI1 on mna ere Voc" Mason Street, in San Francisco. The affair had been scheduled for the strike-bound St. Francis Hotel. Edward J.

Wren is general chair appears- satisfactory Tind the walk ivnrii- been stolen. M'rADL07-0UT! cut off. Alamedan Arrested Westinghouse Union man. Llbbr DeLuxe Main Vote Is Arranged PI As Drunken Driver tail out is not spreading. "I am gratified by the action of the actors at their meeting lasj, night and am preparations to negotiate with the Actors' Guild on Wednesday.

Negotiations with the other groups are being continued as speedily as possible." PITTSBURGH, May 3. iff) Clans tall tin ID: No. Hi tin President James B. Carey of the Read S. S.

VAN DINE'S description of Scrg't. McCabe's thrilling man -hunt ID United Electrical and Radio Work Fertsblrs and Standard! Rented and Sold ers union said today officials of ar Tcntui, No IFiindHnr Churn Westinghouse Electric and Manu ALAMEDA, May 3. Herbert Giese, 26, a cook, 3115 Stuart Street, Oakland, was at liberty under $100 bond today following his arrest last-night on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor. He is to appear before Police Judge Daniel IL Knox Wednesday afternoon. In the 75 years from 1859 to 1934, MARKET OROOrTFRM Colorado produced coal worth facturing Company had agreed to cooperate in elections 'to determine tlild Oregon lb elective bargaining representation 000,000.

This was $40,000,000 more than the value of gold produced in the State during the same period. ror its 47,000, workers. CI1EESE1 8 Only the request for an election understanding was laid before the company today, Carey said; but de Roup's. Dent. 4ft mands will include a -seven-hour We reierve th richt to limit uuantltfei day and a five-day week.

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