Kings Courier from Brooklyn, New York • 1

CENTS PER COPT Office 1692 Utica Ave. Saturday, July 13, 1937 Brooklyn 34, N. Y. VOL; VI, NO. 185 Enter as Second Class Matter at Brooklyn, N.

Y. 1 1 JJL7 I Famous Restaurant Will Never Reopen Lundy Brothers Restaurant, largest and one of the most famous restaurants id 01 Brooklyn Dodger players and Transit Authority Chairman Charles Patterson will be on hand this Sat. morning (July 13) when South Highway Little League opens its own ball field at Shell Road and Canal Street, near the Belt Parkway and MacDonald Ave. in Brooklyn has definitely and irrevocably been closed, the manager announced July 9. No matter what happens, the 2800-seat, sea food restaurant will not re-open, he declared.

The restaurant closed its doors as a result of a five-day-old waiter dispute which erupted on July 4. On that day, 75 waiters walked off the job. Shortly afterward, nearly all the remaining 200 waiters followed them. Another Crown The exciting ceremonies will mark the culmination of nearly a -half year of preparation corr verting an. overgrown lot into a field containing two regulation Little League diamonds.

Both Jlalph. Bronzo and Ed Sorenson, iv ho headed a committee that cleared, levelled and landscaped the fields, will be cited at the pre-game festivities. Mr. who okayed the --leasing of land owned by the Authority for the diam--' onds, will throw out the first ball in a game to be played by the Bob Laurie Eagles and Pops -Place Panthers. Stands will be provided by the Park Dept.

for an anticipated overflow audience. according to League tecrc-" tary Sol the idea for the field jelled after it became obvious last year that diamonds for 1 he five major, five minor and four farm teams in the league were getting more and more dif- icult toobtain. Work began on securing a site and four months Vago actual work got underway. Now with two diamonds available, games carrbe played regu- Jarly on week-day evenings and Saturdays with plenty of facilities for all teams. The teams are: (Continued on page J3) 'W'fc y.v Meanwhile, a of the employees waiters, cooks and bartenders have, decided to let their respective local unions deal with the matter, it was revealed by a waiter's union local spokesman.

The five-day strike had been conducted by the waiters themselves without union authorization. 'the. 'restaurant' firm in its determination to remain closed only the clam bar remains open the union locals are planning a series of meet ings in order to decide what their demands will be, a spokesman for Waiters Union Local 2 in Brooklyn declared. Workers, the spokesman said, are pledged to stay out of tin restaurant until they receive a "100 per cent union contract and conditions." Up to now, they liave been asking for job security, decent food, overtime pay and elimination r-f r--h break- 3 ago fines, among other item. he stated.

Asked whether there was any other solution besides closing the restaurant, Allen J. Lundy, manager, stated definitely to this newspaper, "No, we're finished. The waiters insulted the guests by throwing food at them and by not paying attention to their requests so we're closing." He saw no chance of re-opening the restaurant. Picketing, which began and ended on July 5, will be resumed shortly, according to Johnson C. Miller, a spokesman for the waiters.

The manager, while agreeing tint a new pact calling for $1 an hour had been approved, denied that the pact had included overtime wages and dish breakage. Catering to nearly 15,000 par sons on special holiday occssto (Continued on page 4) 5 :4 AXOTIIER TITLE Carpi Block of 2407E. lf crowned "Miss Kings of 1957" last week, sits atop a naval training plane at tla Floyd Bennett Field Naval Air Station where she was named "Miss Naval Air Recruiter of the Month for July. jWicial Navy.Photq byi 9hief Silz).