New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00294
1963
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22 • AMSTERDAM NEWS
SAL, April 27, IMS
CORE Sets
Pact With
Waldorf
M«$abers of the New York
chapter of the Congress of Racialj
KquAHty 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 agreement
had been reached. Norman Hill
of the national CORE office said I
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 Uroan League
of Greater New York and the
NAACP, had cancelled scheduled
dinners at the Waldorf because
of the picketing.
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 TSSrprUting
table exchanges between repre
sentative* 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 ha* been conceded that there
is some truth to the charge only
to the extent of lack of knowl- j^y and* waiter
edge of
He also worked for years as
an elevator operator, starter, bus-
. so, consequently when he goes
ers, cooks, porters, waiters, wait-
resses and bus boys he repre
sents 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
Two other achievements for
Bi which he claims credit are:
“Getting employers to let em
ployees eat in the dining rooms,
where patrons are served, and
eating from the menu.”
While he 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 a* 400
r cent sine* 1945.
“Waiters then were making $9
week. Ibat’* right And the
ran from 48 to 50 hours,
“Walters and wait-
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 wage* and we
are going to ask for increases
to bring them up to the present
cost of living.
Reese, • portly, graying man
with the air of a etNeesefuI-ex,
ecutive gliding toward the age of
retirement, actually started on
his career as a professional
unionist.
“I was hired by the local to
erack a non-union chop. 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 year*.
Solid unionist Reese is also
solid 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.
Money
Money, the life-blood of the
nation,
Corrupts and stagnates in the
veins,
Unless a proper circulation
It* motion and its heat main
— Swift.
tains.
Foster
4 Parents Get
Together
eots. Award* were presented to
five - year and ten - year foster
parent*.
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In announcing this egaat, Com
missioner Dumpsoo stressed the
pressing need for additional fos
ter homes for more than 1200
children of all ages.
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’* Fo*ter 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 parent*
and expressed the gratitude of
the Department ' of Welfare for
their contribution to the efforts
of the City to meet the needs of
children who are without homes
because of illness, neglect, or
the incapacity of their own par-i
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EGG HUNTERS — The annual
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by Arnold Constable, turned out
to be a brother and sister af
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Millie Brill and Kent Taylor
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10MPANE
VALUES '
Doctors Hospital Signs Contract With Local 144
A three-year contract covering
400 nonprofessional employes has
been signed by Doctors Hospi'al
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 wage* of as much
as $24.50 over the three-year
period, said the union. Formerly,
the basic wage was $43.14 a week
for a 374-hour week. The new
hourly minimum is $1.60.
In addition to wage boosts, the
nonmedical workers also will get
9*4 paid holidays, indudkg the
worker’s birthday, free Blue
Cross coverage and a free in
surance 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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