New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00293
1963
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SA(., April 27, IMS
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CORE Sets
Pact With
Waldorf
of fehe New York
chapter of the Congress of Racial
Kqu^Hfy were to meet late Wed
nesday night to vote on approval
of an greement between officials
of CORE and the Waldrof-Astoria
Hotel over the hotel’s hiring pol
icy. Of Negro employees.
CORE had called off picketing
of the world-famed hotel on April
IS after a tentative agreement1
had been reached. Norman Hill
of the national CORE office said
he expects that the agreement
will be approved this week.
The agreement, reached with
the aid of the city’s Commission
on Human Rights, calls for the
Waldorf-Astoria to “launch a
campaign of affirmative recruit
ment-pf non-white personnel at
all employment levels,” particu
larly concentrating on hiring of
Negro and Puerto Rican waiters,
bartenders, and other food and
beverage handlers and in front
office positions.
CORE officials would not picket
the Waldrof again without first
consulting the hotel and the Com
mission, and Stanley H Lowell,
COHR chairman, agreed to main
tain a continuing review of the
hotel's hiring policy.
Earlier two other civil rights
organizations, the Urban League
of Greater New York and the
NAACP, had cancelled scheduled
dinners at the Waldorf because
of the picketing.
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Union Agent Was Once
On Management's Side
By MALCOLM NASH
Union leaders have no exper
ience with management’s prob
lems and are, as a matter of
course, biased against employers.
This is topical in bargaining
table exchanges between repre
sentatives of labor and manage
ment.
only Negro business agent of
Local 11 of the Chain Service
Restaurant, Luncheonette and
Soda Fountain Employees Union,
is an exception.
Both Leagues
He has played in both leagues.
He once managed a grocery-
delicatessen and also a tavern.
It has been conceded that there
is some truth to the charge only
to the extent of lack of knowl-
edge of ^oyer headaches^ , COnseque.tly when he goes
j J00 bartend.
He also worked for years as
an elevator operator, starter, bus
boy and waiter.
But Joseph Reese, the first and {he {or
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ers. cooks, porters, waiters, wait
resses and bus boys he repre-
'scnts in 27 shops throughout most
of the city, management assert-
edly can not throw at him the
charge that he doesn’t know what
he’s talking about
That may be one reason, be
lieves Reese, why he has main
tained a near 1,000 batting av-
erage in grievance cases that he
has handled during the 17 years
he has been business agent of
his local.
“I handle 200 to 300 grievances
a year, and I can safely say that
I win 99 per cent of them,” he
replied with noticeable pride.
Other Achievements
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Two other achievements for
which he claims credit are:
“Getting employers to let em-j
ployees eat in the dining rooms,
where patrons are served, and
eating from the menu.”
While be admittedly is not sat
isfied with the wages of the 6,000-
odd members of the union, little
over 1,000 of whom are Negroes,
Reese said salaries have
increased alsmost as high as 400
per cent sines 1945.
"Walters then were making $9
a week. That's right And (he
week ran from 48 to 50 hoars
he explained. “Walters and wait
resses are among our lowest paid
members. Cooks are our highest
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“But today,” he continued,
“waiters and waitresses are earn
ing $32.50 a week for 40 hours.
Bartenders who once made $37
a week, now make $75 to $80
for 40 hours. .
- Not Satisfied
“No, we’re not satisfied at all
We can’t freeze wages and we
are going to ask for increases
to bring them up to the present
cost of living.
Reese, a portly, graying man
with the air of a successful ex
ecutive gliding toward the age of
retirement, actually started on
his career as a professional
unionist.
“I was hired by the local to
crack a non-union shop. I had
to work in the shop as a waiter.
It didn’t pay much, but I was
also getting paid by the union,”
he smiled, reflectively.
Once he got the shop’s workers
under the protective, wing
of Local 11, the union’s officials
made him a vice president, then
later made him a candidate for
the elective office of business
agent - an office that he has for
more than a dozen years.
Solid unionist Reese is also
•olid citizen Reese. He is an of
ficial at Calvary Baptist Church
in Queens, an active worker in
that borough’s United Demo
cratic Club and a member of the
Jamaica NAACP.
He and his wife, Alberta, live
at 119-81 178th Place in the
fashionable St. Albans section of
Queens.
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Parents Get
Together
The foster parents who are now
caring for over 850 foster child
ren placed by the Division of Fos
ter Home Care of the Depart
ment of Welfare were honored at
their annual get - together on
Tuesday, at the Riverside Church
122nd Street and Claremont Av
enue.
The affair marked the four
teenth anniversary of the Depart
ment of Welfare’s Foster Home
Program, during which time al
most 1500 children have been
placed in foster homes supervis
ed by the Division.
Commissioner James R. Dump
son welcomed the foster parents
and expressed the gratitude of
the Department of Welfare for
their contribution to the efforts
of the Cky to meet the needs of
children who are without homes
because of illness, neglect, or
the incapacity of their own par
ents. Awards were presented to
five - year and ten • year foster
parents.
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In announcing this eggfit. Com
missioner Dumpaon stjessed the
pressing need for additional fos- •
ter homes for more than 1200
children of all ages.
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EGG HUNTERS — The annual
egg rolling contest, sponsored
by Arnold Constable, turned out
to be a brother and sister af
fair in Central Park. Paula and
Millie Brill and Kent Taylor
display their merchandise cer
tificates while Gregory Taylor
displays his $75 w‘" bond. la
the background are Vivian Rit-
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Doctors Hospital Signs Contract With Local 144
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A three-year contract covering
400 nonprofessional employes has
been signed by Doctors Hospi'ai
and Local 144 of the Building
Service Employees International
Union.
The pact calls for wage boosts
of $8.75 a week this year end
$3.75 in each of the next two years
for most of the hospital’s workers.
Some will get wages of as much
as $24.50 over the threc-year
period, said the union. Formerly,
the basic wage was $43.14 a week
for a 37Mt-l»«ur week. The new
hourly minimum is $1.60.
In addition to wage boosts, the
nonmedical workei ’ also will get
1paid holidays. Including the
worker’* birthday, free Blue
Cross coverage and a free in
policy of $1,000.
Local 144 now has contracts
with 141 proprietary and volun
tary hospitals and nursing homes,
covering 8,000 workers in the
city, the union said.
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