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"Jewish Workers Take Note!"
Scanned Broadside Calling on Yiddish-Speaking Workers to Boycott a Restaurant which is said to use Non-union Bread or to employ Non-union Drivers.
August 1930*

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JEWISH WORKERS TAKE NOTE!

     We are informing all Jewish workers and our
friends that

WEINSTEIN BROTHERS RESTAURANT
Centre and Fifth Avenues

are using bread and rolls delivered by non-union
drivers.

     We ask all workers and friends who eat at
Weinstein Brothers Restaurant, most of whose custo-
mers are working people in the Hill District, to
see to it that Weinstein's should use bread and rolls
that are baked on the Hill and are delivered by
union drivers.  We hereby make known that all other
Jewish restaurants on the Hill use bread baked on
the Hill and delivered by union drivers.
                                on guard!

          JEWISH BAKERS UNION LOCAL 44 &
          JEWISH DRIVERS UNION LOCAL 242

 


Source: AIS 78:21, Box 7987, FF4. Bakers Union, Local #44, Pgh., Pa. Records, 1917-1937.


*Note:  The Yiddish-language broadside carries no date, but it almost certainly can be ascribed to a time shortly after August 15, 1930. On that date, the Yiddish minutes of Local 44 reflect a unanimous decision by the Local’s Executive Committee to place announcements in the Vorwaerts (The Forward, the Socialist Paper) and the Freiheit (Freedom, the Communist Paper) “that at Weinstein Brothers, a restaurant, bread is being delivered by non-union drivers.” (AIS 78:21 Minutes of August 15, 1930, Vol. 1, page 244)