Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-25
Willard and Raleigh Hotel
Managers Unconcerned.
HAVE FULL QUOTA OF HELP
Union Officials Admit They Are
Temporarily Defeated.
TO KEEP UP FIGHT, HOWEVER
Intimate That Bellboys May Be
Called Out-General Strike in
Large Cities Also Hinted.

Managers of the New Willard and
Raleigh hotels today claim that the
strike of the cooks, walters and few
other employees which was called We'd
nesday night by Washington Local, No.
., of the International Hotel Workers
Union, is all over as far as they are con-
cerned, and that. the two houses have
their full quota of employees and are do
ing business as if nothing had hap
pened.
Leaders of the strikers, on the other
hand. assert that the strike has really
just begun, and predict that it will last
for some time, because. they say, the
strikebreakers are mostly colored men,
who Will prove unsatisfactory to the en-
p!oyers.
The Powhatan Hotel and the Cafe Re-
publique seem to have been put in the
background by the strikers. who are GEN.
terinS their attacks On the two hotels
mentioned above. Both the New Will
lard and the Raleigh today had their
dining rooms open, it was said the for
mer with a mixed crew of white and col
ored walters, and the latter with white
walters in one dining room and coiored
in another At the Willard it was said
that in addition to the colored walters
imported last night from New York the
hotel also had twenty-five white men in
reserve who will work In the palm room
tonight.
May Call Out Bellboys.
Although the union officials have not
given up hopes of getting the colored
men TO join the organization and quit
their Jobs. most of the work of the Off
GERS for the immediate future will be to
get the white walters to join the union
as soon as they arrive in town. The union
also claims that if it is thought advisa BILE
the bellboys will quit the hotels as soon
as ordered out.
The headquarters of the international
union is in New York and, according to
reports from that city, plans have been
perfected for the calling of a strike in all
OF the large cities on the middle and north
Atlantic seaboard. The date is said to
be November l. With Simultaneous
strikes in all of the cities. 1T is pointed
out by the union men that it will not be
possible to get men from one city to the
other. The big 'if'' in the Washington
situation, the waters say, is the great
number OF cOlOred men. with experience
as servitors. Many colored men now be-
long to the Washington local and organ
izers will get busy with the rest. Union
officials assert that when the colored men
are organized the managers will come to
terms.
OAAI ACA1pOIdIy 0SASdt.
Even some of the most optimistic
strikers admit that temporarily they
are beaten. but say that if in the next
few days this strike dies a natural
death it will not be long before an
other is called. the union in the mean
time having gained in membership and
organization. 1t is pointed out that
the union is only one year old-the
Washington local only six months-and
that the strikers did not expect COM
plete victory with their first strike
The hotel managers refuse to recognize
the leaving of the employees as a strike
and characterize 1t as an unreasonable
walkout. Pickets We're less numerous to-
day, and there were fewer groups of
strikers on the streets. Despite reports
that the strikers would use force to stop
strikebreakers from going to work, no
cases have been reported to the police
and no arrests for disorder have been
made.
Many policemen are on duty at the
employees entrances and in front of the
hotels. and each place has a strong arm
squad on the job in the Hobbies. Police
also are at the Cafe Republique.