The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-13
MORE TROUBLE
FOR CHICAGO
All the Leading Hotels Involved
in the Strike.
MEN DECLINE ARBITRATION
INDICATIONS OF LONG AND BIT
TER STRUGGLE.

| CHICAGO, June 12.-The strike in the
hotels of Chicago materially in
creased today and twenty-five Of
/ the leading hotels OF Chicago are To-
I night badly crippled in an deDartuenfs
All of the hotels are running boV-e,-er.
ana the proprietOrs declare thar The
establishments viii remain omen for
/ business at any cost.
The first cali to the employees of the
notes TO 60 on strike was made bv the
walking deiega ties at 9 o'qlocL- This
morning and all day the delegates have
! Deen visiting the different hotels rem
resented in the Hotel Keepers associa-
ZION and calling out the help In sew
eral places the walking DELEGATES were
I refused admission and were .comDeIled
Ia signal TO the employees from the out
side In others the strike leaders were
met with the information that there
was no need to make 4 call on the men
10 90 out, the hotel proprietors telling
I the help it would be necessary to 60
/ out and stay out 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 tonight
Hotels in Trouble.
A complete list of houses in which
the employees have left follows: Audi
forum, Auditorium Annex. Sherman.
Grand Pacific, Stratford. Palmer.
Briggs, Bismarck, Ksiserhof, ThCmp-
sons, Victoria, Wellington. I.akota-
chicago Beach, Del Prado. Vendome.
Hyde Park. Winderlere. Latrople. Ken
wood, Holland. Great Northern, Vir-
ginia. ErevOOrt, Union.
The Lexington hotel signed the scale
presented by the union FIVE minutes
after the help had been called out
There Is every indication that the
strike VIII be hard fought The hotel
prODrietOrs declare that the demands
made By the men are unreasonable,
and the unions claim to have been
unfairly treated by the prOprietOrs. in
that the proprietors agreed to treat as
individuals with the unions and have
not done so.
No Arbitration.
The proprietors have agreed to sub
NIT nearly every point at issue to arbi-
tratiOn. but to this the unions VIII not
consent. The unions insist upon the
absolute recognition of the union. To
this latter demand the prODrietOrs say
they viii never agree so long as the
strikers maintain their present atti-
tGde- The unions also demand that
the members Of the Hotel Keepers as
ISOLATION come TO the officers of the
employees association as individuals
ano not as members or any dssocia-
ton.
Tonight pickets surround every hoteI
in which strikes have been declared
and police are patrOlIing the sidewalks
around the buildings So far there has
not been the slightest. evidence Of dis
order
Tonight all Of the hotels are open as
usual and the pTOprietOrs are confident
that they viii be able TO care for all
the guests that may arrive. Several
proprietors have imported help from
outside. and say they can secure more
whenever they need it. a telegram
was sent tonight to President GOmperS
OF the American Federation Of Labor,
asking his assistance in settling the
strike. and a reply was received from
him saying that ne would be here on
Monday.