Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-13
BIC HOTEL STRIKE.
Employees of Ten Large Hos
 \ telries Go Out.
TIE UP DINING ROOMS AND BARS

Walters and Cooks to the Number of
 Two Thousand Want More Pay
 and Better Hours-Hotel Men
 Say They Will Not Close.
 CHICAGO. June 13.-With charges made of proposed "labor graft' as the price of Calling it off a strike was de clared of all employees but clerks in all the big hotels whose managers are members of the Hotel Keepers associ- ation.
 About 2,0OO union employees in ten of the large hotels went out,s chiefly walters and cooks. The large family hotels were the principal sufferers, the large downtown esta blishments, with one exception, not being affected.
 At the Sherman House $50 men walked out, completely tying up the dining room and bar service.
 Among some of the large hotels which will be affected by the Strike or der are the Auditorium, Auditorium Annex. Grand Pacific. Great Northern, Stratford, Palmer House, Briggs House, Bismarck, Kaiserhoff, Thompson's, Vic toria, Wellington, Lakota, Chicago Beach, Del Prado, Vendome, Hyde Park, Windermere, Metropole, Ken wood, Holland, Great Northern, Vir- ginia, Brevoort, Union, besides. num- Der of smaller hotel situated in the downtown district :: : nearly all of the family hotels that are not in the immediate business center of the city. The employees in the hotels are we'll organized, and the order for a strike will carry out all the cooks, walters, bell boys, elevator men, chambermaids, scrub women and all other classes Of help, with the exception of those em- ployed in the offices.
 The Employers association of the hotel men of Chicago, representing more than fifty hotels, including all the prominent hotels of Chicago, held a meeting and have given out the fol- lowing as their official statement:
 ''The leaders of the labor unions of the various employees of the hotels of Chicago have called strikes in many of the hotels of this city, including the residential hotels and the so called downtown hotels, such as the Audito- rum, the Annex. the Victoria, the Stratford, the Wellington, the Palmer House, the Sherman House and others.
 For some days the proprietors and managers of the Chicago hotels have been endeavoring to settle all questions of difference amicably by negotiation with the local boards of the unions rep resented in the controversy with the hotels. The hotel employers, individu- ally and through their association, have offered to the union disinterested arbitration of all questions of wages and hours and also arbitration upon the question of union recognition. The hotels even agreed to submit to arbitra- ton the question of union recognition as advanced by the unions themselves. The various unions of hotel employees as represented by their respective heads have stated that the only arbi- tration they would consent to would be the arbitra ton of their own board and also stated that before they would en- tertain any negotiations further with hotel employers they (the union board) should first determine hours and wages and also that under no circum- SIdhSCc WOui0 tACy SOuSluCI tAS QuCS" ton of freedom of employment even if the hotel men agreed to employ union labor where it was available.
 '"The hotels where strikes have been called are not closed. While they are and naturally handicap ped by the calling of the strike, they are open and will continue to be open and take care of their guests to the best of their ability. In the situation as 1t stands the guests will be provided with rooms and accompanying accom- tnodations and sufficient food to take care of them."