New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
BECOME 'SCABS' AS A Joke
Union Walters Hire Out to Strike
Breaking Employment Agency.

! The scene Of action In the little unpleas-
antntss between the International Walters
Union and the hotel Mems Association
shifted 60 Sixth avenue yesterday. but the
atmosphere lest none OF its potential ex-
plosiveuess on that account. Thinking That
the knights Of the napkin might be taking
. half holiday to enjoy the police parade,
their quondam employers evolved foxy
scheme by which they might steal march
on them. as II were.
/ But they found the walters more Oh the
! Job than previous experience might have
4 led them TO expect Within half an hour
after one Of the unions pickets had STUN
bled across the pretty little stratagem 1t
was in such mess that all further prog
ress I'm that line had to be abandoned, for
the rest Of the day. at any rate.
II was toward noon that one OF the mem
bers OF the union arrived at It's headluar-
t-rs, AT Sixth avenue and iith street. ana
announced that the Hotel Mems Associd-
! ton had opened an employment bureau
! about twenty blocks below, at No. s. Sixth
! avenue. With spirit akin to mischief In
! their hearts. nearly q hundred walters who
! happened 20 be hanging around the head
quarters at the time started down 10 see
whether the bureau offered any desirable
openings.
A man who described himself az j. Nor
gan, Of No. Is West 22d street, met them.
and. wholly unconscious OF the fact that
he was talking 10 union labor. explained
! that he was authorized to engage some
three or four hundred men a walters Or
the first class hotels OF the city. He said
| that the applicants would get s. a day ana
( a guarantee Of ST. a month. If they worked.
or 81 ~ day n they held themselves at
the agency ready to jump into Jobs at a
moments notice Fifty-two OF the appl-
cants signed up.
! Then somebody dropped the unfortunate
! hint that they were men OF the union. Mr.
Morgan stopped short I'm the midst II
! filing in one OF the Identification slips
/ which he had been dealing around, and
ordered them out Of the Office one man.
! by the name Of John Kollans. said he
wanted his 81 -. When lie hit tho pave
ment moment later he told Patroman
| O'BIen, OF the West 18th street station,
! that ne had been thrown out.
| PatrOIman . Bren. ascending the stairs,
/ discovered something Of "A disturbance
| within. He conceived the idea Of quellng
! Il By leading away one Alexander BTittOn.
! Of No. 46} West I'D street. whom kOlldns
/ pointed out as his assillaut. The plan
| worked maTNellOuSly. the entire assemble ge
! followed him. shouting and pushing. to tho
! station house The lieutenant refIstd to
| hold the prisoner unless lie had warrant
| for his arrest When Koans departed to
| obtain one the crowd melted away.
| II was loudly proclaimed at the union
| headquarters In tn" afternoon that the
| agency indicated d plot on the part Of the
| Hotel Mems Association 10 collect a suf-
J Gcient number Of strike breakers, Gust the
| union men now In their employ and hustl"
| the strike breakers into their places
| I'VE agreed to truce until next Friday.
! said one. land We didn't expect them TO
! do any funny business In the mean time.
/ But we've got them where we want them
! now"
All the Motel managers who have been
! involved in the strike 80 far seemed TO be
well satisfied ycstcr lay with being where
J the walters wanted them They unanimous
! ly declared that things were running
| smoothly. and that they had no apprehen-
| sions for the future. +. A Reid president
! of the Hotel Mems Association, denied any
! knowledge Of the fracas Of IA" afternoon.
| a representative of the federal Depart
! ment Of Commerce and Labor visited the
| union headquarters yesterday afternoon
! and was ClOseted with Edward Blocnllng"r.
| tk. secretary, for twenty minutes. II was
| learned that the visit was In connection
! with an inquiry into the unsanitary c0ndi-
| lions under which the walters claim they
! nave been WORKING. but both men said no
| definite evidence had yet been collected
Tie slips given out by j. Morgan 10 the
| members Of the union we're turned over
| 10 John e. Bloch. OF no 20 broadway the
! unions attoTncy, to determine whether any
| action could be taken IN the matter.