The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-03

ana others and ask them to tell their peo-
pie not to act as strikcbreakers. The
preachers all told our committee that they
will not only advise their congregations
not to join the strikebreakers, but will
write TO negro leaders in other big cities
to do the same
LETT wnLN THEY SAID THEY WOULDN'T.
After the brief furry at the Marseilles
in the forenoon there were no more walk
outs until the troubles began at the New
Weston shortly after Il o'clock last night.
Manager George Sanborn had heard talk
W trouble and first got his head waiter
on Saturday tn sound the men. They
az .od the head waiter that they would
nor strike, he says Twice yesterday Mr..
Sanbor1i talked things over with his help
and each time hc was assured. even by
one man who was known to he the most
ardent unionist in the hotel. that the men
would not walk out at the dinner hour.
lwcnty-throe walters we're standing
about the dining room shortly after o
O'Clock when along came union emissiry
with a message At this time only two
tables wcrc occupied, one by Charles l.
johnson. who was dining at DclmOnicos
the day before when the walters walked
out on him. and the other bv Magistrate
Harris of the Domestic Relations Court.
Upon receipt of tho message from
union headquarters eighteen of the
t*enty-three walters quit and so did
everybody in the kitchen except the chef
and his assistant. making twenty-four
strikers in all Manager Sanborn knew
nothing of the strike until the head waiter
came 10 him to tell him that almost every
body had left
"Will you give me n job, Mr.. Sanborn'"
laughed Mr. Johnson. who says he il now
growing accustomed to being walked
out on. The hotel steward went to the
kitchen to help out there and into active
t,,H.x hall ll,.xs,
porters and other employees. The man
agement first looked after mum h"r OF
aged patrons and a few invaids who are
living at the hotel The bcllhops and
porters carried trays of food up to these
while the five walters who had stuck to
their jobs took care of the dining room.
Throughout the rest of the evening.
Manager Sanborn was tclephoning to
addresses he had listed for new help and
sending messengers of in various direc-
tions. for other walters he knew of.
ONLY SIX WENT orr AT NAVARRO.
More than half an hour after the
message had been sent from the walters
headquarters. in West Forty fourth street
to the New Weston. at Forty-ninth. Busi-
ness Agent Elster was denying that the
union had ordered out the New Weston
walters, although on top of the New
Weston strike message came up from
the Hotel Navarro that the walters had
waters in the dining room Of tho Navarro
AT O'Clock five walked out on signal
One bus hoy went with them.
Il didn't notice that the five had left. ="
Demo REESE. manager Of the restaurant
and dining room, said with laugh until
The sixteen walters left are more than
enough to handle the patrons orders
and these mon have all come forward
10 assure mo that they will stick by
Manager Edwards and me. Everything
is lovely"
Al the dinner hour at Pabst's I25 tn
street restaurant about the same time two
dele -ates from the International Hotel
Workers. Union marched into the place
Wit "A lengthy typewritten manuscript
which they said represented their de-
mands Paul Fisher, who represents
Proprietor Meyer asked for time to con-
sidor the document hut the delegates told
him that fhey had to have his signature
Immediately. Mr.. Fisher called his sew
cn'v-hv" walters into the har where he
made Il speech asking them 10 stay. hut
saving that any ono could go that wanted
TO .Sixtv-five Of the walters tramped to
the locker room and departed. The ten
let, served the big Sunday night crowd
a. We'll as they could and a specia' officer
M tho door kept any more diners from
coming in.
'IEED BEFORE HEY COULD STRIKE.
Almost simultaneously at the Hotel
York u few doors from the Navarro in
Seventh avenue and AZ the Empire at
Broadway and Sixty-third street. union
waters and agitators We're being fired
before they had chance 10 walk out
Manager II G.. Williams OF the York took
the biil 10y the goring weapons by making
"A speech to his employees in which he 81 id
that if any Of them thought of walking
ont fhcy could do so then and there. Six
Of the union men thought this a good time
to convert the manager to their way of
thinking. In place o! argument Manager
Williams fired the six disgruntled ones.
I'VE ara making alterat ions i'll our din
ing rooms Mr. Williams said later. "and
this together with the duh season places
liz where we easily can dispense with the
services Of the six men who didn't like
their Jobs
Fifteen union men went out AT the En-
piro in the sam" general fashion AT 715
O'Clock Last FRIDAY night the walters
We're told by the Empire mana agement
that those VINO We're diSSa isiied could
quit then and there The fifteen Men
haze Deen turning over their troubles
ever since then 80 last night they wer.
discharged, leaving nine walters to handle
the summer Sunday night group of diners
The fifteen wanted to go into the merit :
of their contentious, but III. management
said they didn't want them around tell
ing their tr OubIes.
CAME BACH At tONES.
The spread of the strike o Coney Island
which had been looked for since Satur-
dav, finally narrowed down To trouble ~
R.i-cnweber's on Ocean boulevard at Il
O'Clock IN the evening, which for a time
looked serious Every table was occupied
and guests w"ro standing about waiting
for Tables, while many NOR. We're turning
away to find dining plac" less crowded
when fifty walters dropped their napkins
and left their tables.
Inc fiftv malcOntentS marched OF in q
body until they were finally confront ed
Nv Louis Fincher, the proprietor, on a
lower floor and asked to tell their grev-
ances
We want ~ cents more a day for the
walters working only part tim" each day,
was their principle complaint chorustd
to the management
Granted. said Mr. Fincher, whereupon
the fifty turned around and walked right
back to their jobs again The incon-
vonience to the diners lasted only few
minutes. All the other Concy Island
eating places We're caImness itself all
dav and evening
II was learned yesterday that the
waters who walked out at the Ansonia
al "a comparatively late hour on Saturday
night numbered forty. Aunion messenger
came to the hotel carrying the order To
strike at Is o clock One of the Ansonia =
managers however, got an inkling OF
the messengers mission The result
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