New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-25
COOKS WALK
OUT At UNIONS ORDER
Hotel Association Refused to AID.
nit Its Representative to
Their Conference.
TALK OF FOREIGN COOKS
Extra Men Take Strikers Places,
So Patrons of Hotel Get Their
Dinners in Ignorance of
the Situation.

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Carving out its ultmatum issued
"Wednesday to the international Hotel
Workers Union, the Hotel Association
refused Yesterday to admit the unions
representative, Edward Blochlingcr To
| its conference with joint committee
from the various walters and cooks
puiIds and associations for the purpose
| of discussing the grievances OF the en-
ployes. In retaliation for TINS snuo on
tho mart Of the hotel men the union
! called a new strike last night against
tho Hotel Belmont. and ordered out the
coo,,s at the critical moment Of prepar-
| ing for dinner.
ut is Just a sign of what we can DO"
said Joseph Elsert. who is In charge OF
the Belmont strike. "Fifty-hye cooks
walked out and crippled the service OF
the hotel Unless the international union
Is recognized by the hotel men We Hil
! do the same thing TO every hotel and
restaurant In the city.
At the Belmont, however, this strike
was minimized. Only twelve OUT ot
thirty general cooks, 1t was SAID walked
out. with no disorder and without caus-
ing any inconvenience TO the service
This action was foreseen, the Belmont
! nspaoement said and reserve men were
held ready to step into the places left
vacant. SO that the patrons were COM
pIetely ignorant of any halt IN the din.
ner preparations.
Expecting further and more strenuous
trouble from the discontented hotel
| workers as result Of the refusal Of ths
hotel men to recognize their union, the
police captains Of the precincts covering
the large hotel district have received Or
ders to place extra reserve men about
the hotels threatened
Extra Patrolmen on Duty.
Four extra patrolmen were put On
duty at the Knickerbocker, the Waldorf,
the Aston and number OF other hotels,
while one man extra was placed at al
most every hotel in the district. These
men were instructed not to permit
psrading or disorder OF any kind on the
part OF the strikers. The orders we're
also to allow picketing of reasonable
sort. but not to permit any OF the pick
cts 70 handle any one.
The Hotel Association went into ses-
sion at 3 o'clock, 10 await the arrival or
the Joint committee from the various as
sociations with which they we're willing
to treat In reiterating his statement
that the union would not be recognized,
Frederick Reed, president, laid empha-
sis on his assertion that the hotel men
represented S35O.OOO,000 in real estate
and other property interests, while the
new union did not have more than 3d.
coo in It's treasury.
His association. he said. had TO EN-
pi,y and look cut for 10000 workers'
and he asserted that fully 50 per cent
of these did not want to strike. He said
, an investigation had satisfied him and
his associates Of this fact ana they
relt able 10 handle the situation.
The conference was called 70 ojder
after considerable delay but it "ss
quickly broken up when II was disCoy-
cred that a member Of the prescribed
international union was I'm the room IN
the Cambridge Building. in the quarters
OF the Hotel Association, where the
meeting MAS held.
Hotel Men Stand Pat.
The hotel men stood pat and said the"
would do nothing until the intruder Va
Gated. The representatives Of the yari-
Gus societies present came back with the
, declaration that they could not prosee1
) without the sanction Cf the union. The"
l finally agreed that they would retire IN
I body TO confer with officials Of the
union
Before they followed out this plan,
however W. {. Muschenhe.m of the
, Aston sought 10 scothe them with con
r Ciliatory words. He said he had risen
] from the ranks himself and he Symri.
. thized with the men and hoped thHr
and their employers would come 10 some
4 sort OF an agreement. He declared that
their power to settle the questions az
issue
n George e. Boldt, Of the Waldorf, e.
pressed the opinion that the waters in
n their various strikes had taken an unfai-
K advantage of the hotels but added tho
wish that the troubles might be AMIGA
bly, settled.
y number of men were seen going into
the Waldorf last night, some OF whom
= said they were strike breakers. The
hotel management refused 70 answer
queries about them.
The federal government was brought
Z into the situation yesterday when Ed
n ward Blochlinger, of the union. charged
h that James r. Regain. Of the Hotel
t Knlckerbocker who returned yesterday
n from Europe on the France was import
ing foreign cooks Edwin r. Woods an
immigration inspector. said last might
that he had been detailed TO investigate
. this charge but had found no foundation
for II as yet. He said that he was
k Watching the whole matter carefully.
: Mr.. Regain said the charge was ridicu.
lous. as he had no desire TO pay ms
a of $1,000 for bringing foreign cooks uh-
der contract into this country. 90.