Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-30
DON'T LIKE THE FOOD.
Anderson Hotel Walters Complain
About Their Treatment.
THEY HAVE FORMED THEIR UNION
And Grievances Will Soon be Presented
to the Proprietors.
ANOTHER SCALE CONFERENCE TO-DAY.

The colored hotel walters OF the city will
| soon. be ready to present their list of de-
| mands to the proprietors. They have COM
pleted their organization. More than 140
men, representing every hotel in the city
where colered walters are employed, have
Joined, and it isthought that in week or
two the remainder will be in the union.
When all have Joined, the walters will be
in shape to force their demands upon the
proprietors. Meetings are held every week,
and the various complaints made by the
men from each hotel are being referred to a
committee appointed to formulate the list of
grievances and demands.
At the last meeting held complaint came
in from the Anderson which insures clause
in the list of grievances different from the
ones relating to wages and the regulation of
hours. The walters from the Anderson
complained about the manner in which they
are fed.
WHAT THEY KICK ABOUT.
The substance of the complaint was that
the walters there are given the food left on
the tables by patrons of the hotel; that they
do not get enough to eat; that if
they are discovered eating anything
while on duty they are fined 80 cents. and
that frequently they wait until they get
away from the house, and then pay for their
meals in preference to eating secondhand
food in the hotel. At the Monongahela
house, Seventh AveIue, Central, st. Charles
and other hotels tables are arranged in q
separate room for the walters and they are
given exactly similar food to that served to
patrons, but it is claimed that at the Ander-
son it is different
Neither Henry McKinnie nor E. L. Bean,
proprietors of the Anderson, are in the city.
The clerk in charge yesterday refused to
allow a DISPATCH representative to see
any OF the walters, saying that If any in
formation about the employees Of the house
was to be given out, the Office was the proper
place for it to come from. In regard to the
treatment of the walters, he said the en-
ployes of the Anderson were treated as well
as those of any other hotel in the city.
NOT SERVED ALIKE.
'The walters" said he, "sre given the
same food that patrons get, except that it is
served in different way. Of course we do
not allow them to eat in the dining room,
nor do we allow them to 60 out OF the house
for meals during hours"
The clerk admitted that the walters there
are kept ON duty from 8 o'clock A. NJ. to
II P. NJ. (two hours longer than the walters
of any other hotel), but seemed to justify
this by saying that the Anderson employees
were paid as much as those of any other
hotel, viz. SO per month.
The walters are working quietly on their
organization, They have given up the idea
of going into the Knights Of Labor.
Whether they will go into the Federation
has not yet been determined. They have
gained one point, at least, since they organ
lied. The proprietors of the Central Hotel
advanced the wages OF their walters volun-
tarily from $40 to $22 per month. There is
no hotel in the city now where the men are
paid less than $22, but they want S25 and
shorter hours. A decided move is 70 be
made by them within the next two weeks.