Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-01
Among New York Hotel
And Restaurant Walters.
PrOpTietors Planning 10 Fight
The Case to The Better End.
Importing Fasteners and Southern.
ers.-Rioilng on The Streets.

New York, May 1ssThe addition of
1000 strikers TO the ranks, bringing the
total TO 1000 and a demonstration
marked with disorder on Fifth avenue
were today's features of the effort of
the new International Hotel Workers
Union to enforce recognition of the or
ganizatior and to obtain and increase
in wages and improvements in working
conditions of employees IN the Kitchens
and dining rooms of the thousands of
New York eating places The so hotels
and restaurants which have been af-
fected by the strike successfully con-
cealed in many instances the embar-
rassment which the spreading strike
WAS causing, but in many places sew
efal of the dining rooms had to be
closed and restaurant service had to
be concentrated in q single ROOM In
almost every case it was declared that
the captains remained loyal. and al
though practically all of the walters
and hundreds of cooks quit work,
skeleton crews We're organized OF 9th
or hotel employees. college boy recruits
ard Negroes
The hotel men realizing. as they
said, that 1t had come to a SHOW
down." We're busy. tonight, mobilizing
an army of substitutes. principally
from Boston and Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities. and Negroes from
Southern winter resorts. The hotel
men said they would fight to the fin
ish. even though it might he necessary
TO close some of the places. The
union officials said they had exhausted
only one third of their power in~this
city. that additions to the ranks were
recorded hourly, that negotiations were
on looking to the strike of other en-
ployes and that they expected to bring
about practically a complete tie up of
the hotel and restaurant business in
the city and if necessary to extend the
movement to other places
The first notable demonstration of the
strike occurred, late tonight when about
400 men marched up Fifth avenue. four
abreast and halted i'm front of Delmon-
ico's shouting "Seab" and other epithets
to the walters there who refused to join
them. The threats of the few policemen
on hand to call the reserves and place
the whole crowd under arrest was met
with jeers. An officer wedged him way
into the crowd and seized one of the men
on a charge of disorderly conduct. The
arrival of more policemen with night
sticks drawn eowed the mob and 1t NOV
ed along 10 other hotels. where similar
tactics were used. and 1t finally rounded
up in mass meeting in an opera house.
which was later crowded to the galleries.
The list of new places were strikes
were declared, tonight, was read and
received with cheers The list included
the Park Avenue. the Majestic, the Her
aid Square, the Hoffbrau Hauz. Moquin's
to places, and the two Bustanoby restau-
rants.
The speakers at the mass meeting We're
William D. Haywood. Rose Pastor
Stokes, Joseph EIster the organizer of
the strike. and Secretary Edward Bloch
Hanger.
Haywood said he wanted to congratu-
late the strikers on their fight already
won," and said he was reliably inform
ed that even Judge Gary of the Steel
Trust went into hotel where he was
wen known. this afternoon. and was UNI
able to get so plain an order as ham and
eggs
Otto Schotz. one of the strikers, sound
ed a new note when he said:
I'm tell you what the strike really is
against. 1t is against the tip"
Henry Schwam, an attorney for the
union, who was once waiter. told the
meeting he was glad to get back at one
of the hotel proprietors who fined him 81
because he served a lamb chop without
a paper broehette around the bone.