New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-08
WATERS THREATEN COUP
Declare They Will Hit Hard When
German Fleet Arrives.
TALK OF GENERAL STRIKE
Mrs. Stokes Says Walk Out Has
Just Begun--Labor Officials
Criticise Leaders.

THE Germans are coming with hos and
ahoy's 70 honor our welcome or fout IT,.
VIII they dine at the Waldorf on Monday.
my boys? Well. maybe they will. but |
doubt it
SO sang Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes in her
office at the International Hotel Workers
Union. I'm West 4ith street yesterday. AZ
least so she would have sung had she been
unsteady inclined at the moment. But she
was too enthused with her subject TO both
er about music just then. What she did
say was:
The German feet is coming in. The
hotels can't go on with the force they
ha ="
There wasn't any use asking her to am
plify. That's where the hotel strike stands
now. The walters set the arrival of the
feet as the signal for letting slip their next
dog Of war. Edward Blochlinger, secretary
Of the union, said yesterday that things
We're going TO be frightfully upset then'
Just when every one wanted them 10 De
running smoothly. For one thing ne re-
marked casually, he was going to can out
all the firemen, coal passers, electricians
engineers, and goodness knows what All
on Monday night just when the German
officers were about to sit down To their dig
dinner at the Waldorf, and leave the Whoie
place I'm darkness.
Mrs. Stokes. whose new office in the build
ing where the union holds forth was being
properly papered yesterday, was just az
cheerful about the situation as could De-
"FinishedY' she asked. smilingly. on
l,nI
gun. One or two walters have gone back
TO work. but the men are standing soiiu'
Why one man with wife ana chlldreh'
who has been a waiter for thirty-hve years.
is still out The employers have been sehu-
ing postcards to their old men, begging
them to come back. and the men BRING
them here. waving them in the air.
Tomorrow we're going TO have big
mass meeting for women in Bryant Hali
from to clock. Mrs. Theresa Maihlei'
who was active In the shirtwalst strlhe t"o
wears ago, is going TO speak, ana Joseph
E,Ister. OF course. and Algernon Lee. secre-
tarv of the Rand School OF Social science
I'm going 10 talk. too
Az a little experiment in calling out tne
mechanical employees of hotel the union
blew it's whistle in the boiler room vi 'n'
Hoffman House, at 18th street and Broao-
way, last night. Mr.. BlochlinSer sald siA'
teen men answered the call. AleAaIue'
NcDnnald. manager OF the house, SAID ne
had only nine men working in that ue-
n.rtrent al the time. Five OF them went
out he said. Though the men VINO "aiAeu
out pictured the hotel as in carkness' 10.
a light winked, Mr.. Mcdonald SAID, anu
not machine stopped Tor moment nc
night shift was just ready TO come on Ne
EXPLAINED. and took It's place at the hreS
without delay.
The only other walk-outs during the day
were at tho Cadillac. at Broadway ana
i3d street. where fifteen walters lald do"h
tbeir napkins during dinner, and at the
Woodstock. No. TT West 43d street when
lost five walters and three COOKS, WIN
only three walk-outs 10 their credit last
Wight. the strikers saw that something must
no done 20 let the motel men know tha'
they were still holding out. Accordingly
hundred or more of them gathered IN
broadway as the men from the two hotels
appeared and organized parade
CAPTAIN McE.lroy. OF the Tenderoin sta
,io,, admit care for the looks OF IL. WITH
Patrolman Armstrong at his back he sailed
IN 10 break I'D the parade. In the ensuing
melee four walters were arrested, to Wit:
charles Katz. of No 20 Third avenue;
Abraham Schrager. of No. 2Tj Lincoln
street Brooklyn: William Stiglitz, of NO.
Sos East 9th street and Isidor Gold, who
gave no address They were later hailed
out by their friends
Four concerns We're added yesterday 10
those which acceded 10 all the union $ &C.
mands. according 20 It's representatives.
They were Maresfs. a catering establish
ment al 41st street and Sixth avenue; the
Brighton Beach Casino; the Jefferson ITO
lei. at Brighton Beach. and Reisenweoer
restaurant. at Coney Island. One OF the
Unions organizers went to New Haven on
the 6 O'Clock train last night with bunch
of contracts, which he hoped 10 bring back
signed
Two labor officials ligh In the circles OF
organized labor and experienced In the d.
rection of strikes agreed yesterday win
tho reiterated statement of the hotel men
that thirg rs looked black for the strikers:
While sympathzng with the walters and
boping for their ultimate victory. they
sharply criticised BlochinGer anu Eister;
the leaders of the movement. and pointed
ont that more experienced men would nave
gone about the matter differently