The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-14
Latter Breaking the Chicago Strike by
Insuring Delivery of Supplies and
Declining Active Sympathy.
HOTEL MEN IMPORTING HELP
BONIFACES IN OTHER CITIES ASSIST
ING CHICAGO BRETHREN.
Strikers Losing Ground by DesertiOns
Union Cards Torn Up by Many
Bartenders.

CHICAGO. June 1.-THE second day in
the strike Of the hotel and restaurant en-
ployes in twenty-six of the hotels brought
de5ertions from the ranks Of the unions and
increased determination in the minds of the
hotel owners to ignore what they term the
arbitrariness of the striking employees.
Vigorous efforts of strike pickets to inter-
fere with delivery of coal, meats and gro
Gerry supplies created some excitement
around many of the hotels, but every such
effort was baked by business agents of the
various unions involved in the attacks, and
even the milk-wagon drivers, who had de-
clared in favor of the strike, were forced by
officials of the National Transfers Union
TO obey the general laws of the organization
and to refrain from a sympathetic strike.
Attempts of the strike leaders to enlist
the teamsters, engineers and firemen
failed. The strike directors sought first
to enlist the sympathy of the National
Transfers Union and when no official SYM
pathetic strike order could be secured the
pickets of the cooks and walters took the
matter in their own hands and tried to
stop the delivery of coal and other sup
plies.
AS soon as these tactics were made
known at the Transfers Union 100 rival
pickets were scattered through the down
town district to combat the efforts of the
strikers and to assure the delivery of
hotel supplies. Before the end of the day
the cooks and walters abandoned hope of
support from other unions.
A canvass of the hotels where strikes
have occurred shows that most of them
are in fair working condition Against a
total of 2517 employees who have gone out
the hotels in the aggregate have working
In worse condition, but all of the down
town places are fairly well equipped and
are confident that by Monday night they
will have full working force.
Three hundred men arrived in Chicago
during the day from outside cities sent
here by agents of the hotel men who were
sent out several days ago. These men were
taken from the trains to various hotels in
busses in order to lull the suspicious of the
pickets.
Every hotel owner has arranged with
correspondent hotels in other cities for all
the help that can be spared. These men
will come here with the understanding from
local proprietorS that they may remain If
they wish and they have been assured by
old employers that their old positions will
be given them when they return.
Bartenders who went out yesterday in
many instances returned to work to-day
and tore up their union cards. Walters
who struck Friday at the Union Restaurant
returned in groups of four and five to-
day and were disappointed when they found
the doors closed and no one there to ad-
wise them whether they might return to
work.
The Hotel Owners Association remained
solid and declared that its policy from now
on would be TO get all the help it was pos
sibe to secure from surrounding cities
and to ignore the strikers altogether as Ions
as they continue to insist on their demands
for exclusive contracts and refused to sub
nit difference to arbitration or 10 incOr
porate arbitration provisions in their pro-
posed contracts.
Early In the day George Schiling, in be-
half of the National Civic Federation, ap-
peared at the strikers headquarters and
offered the services of that body TO arbi-
trate the differences between the men and
their employers. In addition to the regu-
larly appointed arbitration committee of
the federation ii was proposed TO invite
John Mitchell to become a member for this
occasion, and to give him the deciding vote.
The offer was refused by the strikers, they
declaring that arbitration would be ac-
cepted only as last resort.