New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-30
WATERS CO OUT At
THREE MORE HOTELS
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the men went on as If nothing was il
| the wind.
The Hotel Plaza and the Manhattan
expecting disturbances. sent word Cor
more policemen, but no trouble came.
During the afternoon the Fifth Avenue
restaurant capitulated to committee
from strike headquarters.
Diseord in Both Camps.
Interna, strife developed yesterday IN
the two opposing camps of the hotel
employees and the hotel proprietors. on
the one side the members of the Inter
national Hotel Workers Union threa.-
ened vengeance on the members of the
six allied societies who have been
negotiating with the Hotel Mems AS
ISOLATION. A good part of the members
of the allied societies also belong to the
union. and the latter body threatened 10
strike their names from its roster unless
they discontinued the conferences with
the hotel men until the employers agre ii
to recognize the union.
On the othe- side, James 3. Regain.
proprietor of the Knickerbocker Hotel,
walked out of a meeting of the hotel
mems committee I'm a huff yesterday
afternoon. and declared he had resigned
from the Hotel Mems Association and
would handle the strike at his hotel in
dependently.
In announcing his resignation from the
association MIR. Regain said:
II am operating this strike all by my
self. | have resigned from the Hot II
Mems Association and will expect no
further assistance from them. ! asked
for their assistance and they refused it..
I have all the men I want If all Of
these new walters walk out in another
strike I'll get others to replace them. I
purpose to open my hotel to the public
at 8 o'clock tonight and continue to do
business I have been closed up since
Monday"
Mr.. Regain explained that he was get
ting plenty Of strike breakers through a
city agency. He said that the difference
between him and the hotel men was due
TO his request that they help him out by
sending him some OF their walters. lie
told them that each ought to help when
"A strike was directed against any par
ticuar hotel. The hotel men couldn't
see IT Mr.. Rcgan's way.
Increase Granted.
one Of the six allied societies which
conferred with the hotel mems commit
tee at the rooms Of the Hotel Mems AS
ISOLATION. at sd street and Fifth ave-
nue.. on Tuesday, announced its intel-
ton Yesterday OF accepting the revised
schedule Of wages offered by the hotel
men. After meeting OF the full mem
bcrshp Of the Hotel Mems Association
during the afternoon announcement w"s
made that the association had given
voluntary increase OF wages from 20 per
cent up. and had made other changes
Irrespective of what the walters organ
izations might do. II was further an
nounced that the increases would 60 into
effect at the Aston. the Waldorf Astoria,
the Plaza and the Vanderbilt on June |.
The other large hotels will adopt the now
wage schedule on September !
Representatives ~ the allied societies
were Informed OF the new wage schedule.
but declared they could not pledge the
loyalty Of the members ~ the organic.
tions represented 10y them.
The new wage schedule provides for m
advance from So month 10 $50 and
on his salary the middle of the month.
Buses are to be paid So a month. win
half day off each week and one day III
every two weeks. other reforms
tho management Of the dining room,
said to bc more agreeable to the walters.
were adopted together with the now
wage schedule.
Tho walters union pulled another
strike Yesterday noon. Twenty-Five ~
the thirty walters employed in brakes
restaurant. in West 42d street. walkel
out during the noon hour. leaving the
diners at the tables. They proceeded to
strike headquarters. where they joined
with the other men already out. TIL"
strikers announced that they had been
negotiating with Shcrry's. ReCtOr's. Muir
RAYS and other large restaurants. and
that satisfactory arrangements would he
made with the prOprictors Of these
places without calling the men out
Diplomacy Fails.
oscar Tschirky, manager OF the Wal
dorf Astoria, took measures yesterday
to forestall strike, but succeeded only
in staving II of few hours. He called
"A conference OF the employees Of the
hotel In the grand ballroom and adj
dressed them. He reviewed their pleas
ant relations and said that he had J.
ways tried to deal squarcly with the en-
ployes whenever a complaint had been
made. Oscar told the chefs and walters
that he wanted to ask them. If they in
tended to strike, not to wait until the
noon hour when the departments would
be rushed, but To walk quietly down
stairs TO the paymastcr and get thei,
pay and leave the hotel quietly.
When he had finished the men rose in
n body, and their spokesman declar'l