Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-05
Four Hundred Employees Walk
Out of Chicago Beach Hotel
Leaving Guests Helpless
LEFT DINING ROOMS HUNGRY
Hundreds Were Waiting in the Grand
Pacific and Chicago Beach When the
Signal for the Walk Out Came-cuI-
minatins Feature of the Restaurant
Employees Strike.

ionably attired guests of the Grand Pa.
cific and Chicago Beach hotels wer,
forced to leave the dining-rooms hun
cry last evening owing to simultane.
| employees. The closing Of the hotels
cafes, and dining-rooms came as a
eliminating feature Of the restauran,
| employees strike, which. earlier in the
day, had caused the barring of the
| doors of four down town restaurants
| More inconvenience was caused the
! guests of the Chicago Beach by the
walkout than any OF the other hostel
ries or restaurants. Nearly one hum
dred men and women in fashionable
evening attire were seated in the din
| ing-room at Z o'clock when shouts re-
sounding turnout the hotel caused
| many of the guests, anxious to learn
the cause of the trouble Ito leave the
tables. Almost instantly the walters
laid aside their aprons, cooks dropped
their knives, and elevator men left
their posts. Employees to the number
of nearly 400 had walked out of the
place within ten minutes.
Men in full-dress suits and women
in silks and satins demanded angrily
of the walters who were leaving the
place why they were not being served
ana what was the cause of the noise.
Finding that the steaks. pastries, and
other things which they had ordered
We're not to be served they filed out of
the dining-rooms. Some started for
the elevators intending to go to their
roonlS on the upper floors to get their
wraps and seek dinner elsewhere. On
arriving at the elevators they found
them stopped, and many men and wom
en- climbed up six flights of stairs to
their rooms and down again before
they could go in search of another din
ing place.
The lobby of the hotel soon assumed
the appearance of an Indignation meet
ing One woman said in tones loud
enough to be heard by many of those
about her, This is the second time
today have been deprived OF meal
owing to the restaurant employees
strike. At noon I was at the Union
res taurant when the strike was called,
and now am left without dinner"
Some of the women sought bell boys
and maids to go in search of their
wraps. but met failure here again.
These employees had walked out with
the others. After walking up several
flights of stairs to their rooms. some
of the guests called for the chamber
maids to aid them. but were again dis
appointed since they also had left. All
of the employees, with the exception Of
the engineers bartenders. and about
a dozen more of the employees left their
places at the signal of the delegates
from the local joint committee of res
taurant employees union. The en-
ployes who went on strike are said TO
have been divided as follows:
Walters Gall colored) So
Chambermaids and scrub women. 100
MAIDS. .............. ..1oV
Bellboys (coloreO is
Elevator men (colored. Northumberland
Dishwashers ....2o
Cooks Observation-Disclosures. -
Today the hotel will be picketed, the
olnclalS OF tne-iaDoT UNIONS sly 10 pre-
vent meat, groceries, or any thing from
getting in the hotel. In this way thel
striking employees expect to effectively
tie up the hotel.
OF the several strikes called yester-
day the most spectacular in the down
town district was that at the Grand
Pacific hotel. 1t did not take place for
several hours after the others, or until
$50 o'clock last night. The table lin
Ell was set for dinner, and a number
of guests were seated at the tables
waiting for their orders to be filled.
The first to walk out was the cook, and
he was Immediately followed by the
walters, chambermaids, porters, and in
fact. all of the employees of the hotel,
except the bellboys. They have prom |
ised to min the others at once.