New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
POLICE D|SPERSE WATERS
Paraders in Front of Belmont Use
Too Much of the Sidewalk.
TWO OF THEM ARRESTED
Union Leader Says All Branches
of Hotel Help Are Ready to
Strike on Friday.

Repeating their performance Of several
nights ago. the walters who have taken a
slight dislike to the Hotel Belmont since
fifty OF their kind left two weeks ago to Is
cape from what they called the tyranny OF
Victor Pearl, the head waiter. paraded Up
and down Park avenue between 4lst and
I'D streets about dinner time last night out
side the windows OF the dining room where
.he fifty once held sway. They so blocked
the passage OF prospective diners who We're
trying to approach the Park avenue en-
trance that PatrOman Holland of the
West 3Oth street station. decided something
should be done 10 shoe them away. lie
thereupon arrested two.
The two whom the prescryer ii the
peace took away to the station house with
him seemed to he the leaders of the dem
onstration They gave their names as
John Collins. Of NO 33S East 43d street
and William T. Miller. of No. 535 East
18th street For a time il looked ds If
they would spend the night In cell, but
p collection among their fellows produced
enough money to cover their bail and they
were released.
Collins, however remembered Soiu
pehAil'Ie "h'ch hdo peen I"'u upo', III,
desk when he was searched and refused
30 take advantage Of his freedom without
IT, He was all for having another dis
turbancc night there in ;he station house,
but the knife was restored 10 him in time
20 forestall H. and the crowd departed
Fomewhat subdusd. but s.l confident that
their cause was .ust.
The International HOte, Workers Union.
~ whose birth IN this CITY the public be
came aware two weeks a." when hfiN
walters walked out Of tde Belmont Hotel
In the middle Of the dinner hour and 'r't
the guests 10 hustle their own food. II they
had any appetite remaining. is on the verge
Of becoming national Letters have been
pouring into the HEADQUARTERS from ali
parts of the country reIu"st.nr authority
10 found local branches In' 'fs'rl@1 non
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ecutive committee ia q sense diher'h'
from their usual mode of waiting. TO learn
what answer viii be made 10 their de-
mands
If the demands are not granted catas-
trophc appalling to contemplate is likely
to follow Every hotel waiter, chamber
maid. bellboy and cook in the country will
lay down the tools Of his trade and leave
the transient public to shift for Itself, as
you might say.
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desert thelr STATUS J" i''''' va CIV.
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Send on al One aPpii0". .i,d o%thoriZatiGn
ers. p ooh5' ~ ti1o o,Iy a,thori2cd agents to
receive cash. Enthusiasm great. This Is
immediate and needs prompt al'ch''oi'
Mr.. Blochlinger said that there were
union organizers in all Of these cities al
ready. and IN many more too numerous 10
mention. In most cases they were WORKING
quietly. however, in order not 10 arouse
the direct opposition OF the employers. lie
showed also letter from the Builalo
branch Of the International Geneva Asso-
,ta,;o,, stating that many OF its members
would Ike TO be ehrOiIeu oI ''' "'0N -
the union
A small howl from the direction ol TIC
Knickerbocker arose yesterday AFTERNOON
when several OF the WATERS from 'il"' "o'e,
declared that they were about 10 De tdAoo
So for each OF t"eIty-se'eH P'",''
had been broken since the beginning Oh the
wear The head waiter, they declared mao
forgotten all about the plates unth lhe re-
cent little demonstration on the part OF the
rank and file. and had then decided 'h"'
they ought to be paid for
only the blue china ai n' WINCH ho uvo' and