Barbers Meet to Ask for Better Wages and Hours
- Title of event
- Barbers Meet to Ask for Better Wages and Hours
- Type of event
- Meeting
- Address of event
- Barbers Meet to Ask for Better Wages and Hours Happened Entirely at 202-204, W 136th St
- Report on event
- Barbers Meet to Ask for Better Wages and Hours Sole event referenced by Journeymen Barbers Ask Better Wages and Hours
- Start date / time
- April 2, 1930
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Evening)
- Description
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Harlem's barbers met to listen to labour leaders discuss the need for improvement in their work hours and conditions. Speakers included a Socialist leader and writer, and the head of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union of Greater New York. They articulated a desire for a minimum wage for barbers of $30 a week, working hours (except on Saturday) from 8am to 8pm, and the right to one half day off each week. A charter was expected from the American Federation of Labor the following week.