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...workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...
...orchestras played all night for Long Island's gilded youth, now white-wings who spent their lives cleaning the streets of the metropolis, inspectors who fought its diseases, engineers who disposed of its sewage, will live in luxurious vacation and retirement. Cottages will be built for pensioners. Horn & Hardart will set up a cafeteria...
...Manhattan as the Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...
...strike in Manhattan last week against Horn & Hardart's "Automat," cafeterias and food shops were members of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes Union. Dissatisfied with the indifference of the passing public, two Automat pickets, David Hart and Joseph Molner, paraded with placards picturing two chefs in conversation, one holding a pot, the other dangling a black cat, obviously dead...
...died when the troupe was in its heyday, the personnel of the historic little combination will be the same, although a few extra players may be added. Russell Robinson, Ragas' successor, who composed Margie and Palesteena, will again be the pianist, after four years on the Horn & Hardart (Automat) broadcast. Edwards and Sbarbaro, who have had spasmodic club jobs in Manhattan, are glad to get in regular harness again. Plan is to tour this summer, probably through New England and Pennsylvania. Observed canny Drummer Sbarbaro last week: "With all the old soldiers getting their bonuses there ought...