Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-06-18
HOTEL EMPLOYEES STRIKE.
Tweaty-iive Of Thicago's Leading EIO-
tells Are Badly Crippled The Fight
WEI Ise StubbOrnIy Contested.


Chicago, June l3.-The strike in the
hotels of Chicago, impending for the
last three weeks, materialiZed yester-
day and 25 of the leading notels of
Chicago are badly crippled in all de-
partments. All the hotels are run
ming, however, and the proprietors
declare that the establishments will
remain open for business at any cost.
The first call to the employees of
the hotels to go on strike was made
by the walking delegates at o'clock
Friday morning and all day the dele
gates were visiting the different ho-
tells represented in the Hotel Keep
ers' association and were calling out
the help.
In several places the walking dele
gates were refused admission and
were compelled to signal the en-
ployes from the outside. In others
the strike leaders were met with the
declaration that there was no need
of making n call on the men to go
out, the hotel proprietors telling the
help it would be necessary to get out
and stay until the trouble was over.
The last hotels in which strikes were
declared were the Virginia, the
Great Northern. the Brevoort and
the Union. The men in these places
walked out last night.
The Lexington hotel signed the
scale presented by the union five
minutes after the help had been call
ed out.
The proprietors have agreed to
submit nearly every point at issue to
arbitration, but to this the unions
will not consent. They insist that
their demands for higher wages and
shorter hours must be granted be-
fore they will arbitrate anything and
insist also upon the absolute recog-
milton of the union. To this latter
demand the proprietors say they will
never agree so long as the strikers
maintain their present attitude. The
proprietors have expressed a willing
ness to arbitrate this proposition
also, but the men will not recede
from their position. The union also
demands that the members of the
Hotel Keepers association come to
the Offices of the employees associa-
ton as individuals and not as MEM
bers of any association.
Pickets surround every hotel in
which a strike has been declared and
details of police are patrolling the
sidewalks around the buildings. So
far there has not been the slightest
evidence of disorder.
All the hotels are open as usual
and the proprietors are confident
that they will be able to care for all
guests that may arrive. Several pro-
prietors have imported help from
outside and say they can secure more
whenever they need it.
The members of the Restaurant
Keepers association last night took
action that is practically certain to
shut up number of their establish
ments today. The restaurant keep
ers decided that they will offer to
submit all differences to board of
arbitration, to be composed of seven
members, three from the unions,
three from the Restaurant Keepers
association and the seventh man to
be chosen by the six, the decision of
this board to be binding. All en-
ployes who will sign an agreement to
accept this proposal will be allowed
to remain at work and those who re-
fuse will be asked to leave until such
time as they shall be willing to ac-
cept arbitration. The unions already
have refused to accept arbitration,
and it is practically certain the offer
of the association will be refused
again.