At times, waitresses in the newly established, semi-industrial locals of the 1930s engaged in self-regulation and peer discipline, but usually they did so through informal means because their locals lacked the extensive web of by-laws and work rules governing employee behavior developed by the older craft locals. After a series of weekly meetings, Local 6 coffee-shop waitresses decided to punish any woman who was late repeatedly by giving her a back station. One justified her action for the union newspaper: “It is usually regarded as the function of the management to take disciplinary action,” she said, “but if we undertake to discipline ourselves we will be in a much better position when we want to ask for something.”26