The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-30

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on the Fifth avenue side and yelled:
Come out boys. come out"
Eighty waters promptly set down the
trays of steaminE dishes and the diners
dropped their forks aghast But nothing
happened, and after three minutes the
orders were shunt.d of the trays only a
little cooled by the disturbance
In the afternoon a delegation from the
! International Hotel Workers Union called
on William Wood. the proprietor. and asked
that he reinstate headwaiter whom he
had recently discharged Mr. Wood
refused on the ground of genera discipline
and expected q sequel He had telephoned
| to the East Fifty first street station and
ia policeman was on duty at the time Of
the disturbance. but the enthusiast az the
window lodged him successfully.
| Three men were on duty at the Man
haitian and four men at the Plaza under
| Lieut. Raynor because Manager Ratings
| had tclephoned that he was expecting
trouble. Nothing happened. at any Of
th">" places. however. and at the ST.
| hcgis the peace was 50 profound that the
hotel folk declared they did not need n
| single policeman.
| The delegates from the six benevolent
associations of waters III tn" city re-
| ported To the Hotel Mems Associat ion
Yesterday that their associat ions had
men. Seventeen of the dele gates net
! nincty-four inomlers Of the Hotel Men :
Association in tn. afternoon and had
another talk. The upsho' Of tho meeting
was TN" resignation of James Il. Regan
proprietor OF the Hotel knickerbocker
ltrom the association and his decision to
! fight alOn" hereafter.
! After tho dele gates had reported that
the association would use moral suasion
to have their members go back to work
| or stick to work they departed The
situation n that regard is a little peculiar
| l he nciahprs o; the walters isSOCiLt ions
are all union men A. association men,
ter~ they miy approve III. offer. hut IA
union m'n they must obey the orders
Of the officers Of tn" International Hotel
Workers Union The best they will be
able to do will be to ask their officers
not to prolong the strike. which has now
resolved itself into one for recognition
! of the union
WONT DEAL WITH UNION
We are sorry that MIR Regan took the
action he did. said President Reed last
night; but he asked Us to do something
winch was impossible or which would
hav" prccipitated strike in every hotel
in town He asked Us TO send him some
, of our walters. and 1t can readily be seen
that as We have union mon every man
, would strike before ne would 20 As
matter of fact, MIR. Rcyan has mad men
he has e,ect.d. Mr.. Muschenheim sent
him thirty-iive Of his reserve men from
the Astor and ReGan would MT take one
OF them Other men were sent to him.
but II" required that they all to" up TO the
| ordinary standard. which was impos sibe
we could not break Of our otiations
with IN" societies. for IN them av our hope
"" are not dealing with IN" union. but
| with them. The waters all .long toono
Of the six benevolent associations and we
have always been most ir."ndly with
them"
Mr.. Ragan, after a dav of quiet, last
night opened his dining room and an
nounced that he was through with tho
hotel men and will fight alone.
Il am going it alone. said Mr.. Regan
Il have resigned from the association and
expect no assistance from them. As a
matter Of fact ] didn't get any assistance
from them anyway. I've been tied up
mere since Monday night and allowed to
do the best l could without any rea
help from them. Now | can get all the
come back and have good men in addi-
ton. opened the two dining rooms
tonight and will open the grill room with
Il tull force tomorrow.
~ far as could he learned there was
only one arrest last night. Alfred Halde
himself when he got up to Forty first
street and sixth avenue and got into al
argument with policeman. Halde was
leading procession and Policeman Hines
told hlm to halt.
Don't mind him." shouted Halde.
Z come on. men.' Halde landed in
nignt court later on
w, u. Muller. secretary OF the executive
board of the Internal ional Hotel Workers
Union, who appeared 10 i# the spokesman
yesterday for the strike leaders. said last
night that tho lnterna, ional GenevaAsso-
|.,t,. Il tL. N, Ill H.
had withdrawn from the combined asso :
Citations Of hotel employees and joined
the Internal onal union The walters
were prepared 10 strike in other places.
hc said
MORE STRIKES TALKED or
when the walters of the Waldorf quit, "
he con tnued, "Mr. Boldt made a speech
to them advising them not to strike. II
did not prove effective. At the kaiserhof
the manager is i'll and the head waiter
detrd the union The men in the Marie
Antoinette wanted to walk out. but !
stopped the strike there until | can see
tn" manager.
detention of d number Of strike breakers
at Ellis Island who were on the steamship
La Provence.
A mass meeting Of the 1T strikers has been
called for Friday evening at the New
Amsterdam Opera House, at which Mrs
/
clpal speaker.
Al the knickerbocker which il usually
very busy al luncheon time. things were
absolutely quiet, Dne found the res
ta,lrant, tn" broadway cafd and the grill
room tightly closed and one of the mana :
gers said that while breakfast had been
served in tho caf" no attempt was being
made to cook anything for the midday
meal, Practically all the cooks of the
knick"rbock"r went ont with the walters,
but II was said yesterday that some had
com" back When the hour came for
In" a.S"mhlage of the luncheon crowd
and tn" ladies came in from shopping
to meet other ladies or the gentlemen
with whom they had engaged to take
lunch and found the eating rooms shut
tight there was much concern and there
wnS NOR" than one late meal taken else
where
About tn" various hotels one noticed
"A liberal sprinkling of Central Office men
ycstcrdav Several pickets were seen
horcring in tn" neighborhood of the Ritz
Carlton, whore the mana cement antic-
patns no trouble. and Theses were belng
carefully watched by a Central Office man
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