Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-01
Managers Association Defiant.
Will Make no Compromise
With Men
ISSUE UNION RECOGNITION
Insist That Men Must Come Back as
Individuals-Strike Free from Dis
0rder-But Few Arrests.

-'N" Ohht u Wv - A>cPNSN N'N~
fact that 21 hotels, six Of the best
known restaurants and two clubs
were crippled today by the walters
strike. the Hotel Managers Associ-
alton defantly declared that there
would be no compromise. The real
cruX of the situation is union recog-
milton. Most of the hotels declare
their Willingness to grant the men
the increase in wages, shorter hour
work days and reforms IN disciplinary
fines asked, but they INSIST the men
must come back to work as individu-
ais. The men contend they will re-
turn only as union members.
So far the strike has been singu-
larly free from disorder There have
been some arrests, but they have been
the work of 'over-zealous policemen
and not due to real disorder 1t was
stated at strike headquarters today
that $500 men are out, and that by
noon tomorrow the number will ex-
ceed 5000.
Committees of the union meet ev-
cry train that comes into town and
up to the present have succeeded in
organizing three-quarters of the
strike-brcakers imported. Many of
these men insisted that they did not
know that a strike was in progress
and accepted tickets back to their
homes.
The hotel men brought large num-
Der OF college boys mere and tried
them out, but they were not salts
factory as walters. They were prone
to argue with the guests and they de-
clined to submit to the rigid discipline
of the waiter captains and head wait
ers, with the result that after a few
hours trial the majority threw up
their jobs in disgust. Southern ne
groes are being tried as an expert
ment but in only one hotel, the Plaza,
are they giving satisfaction.
At the Plaza cots nave been placed
in the great ball room, one of the
most expensively furnished rooms in
the hotel and there the negroes sleep,
as the police have warned the man.
agement that if their imported blacks
roam the city at will they will have
strenuous time Of 1t at the hands Of
the entertainment committee"
Only the tolerance of the guests
has made it possible TOR many of the
hotels where the strike is on to keep
the dining rooms open at all. Many
of the guests have openly taken sides
with the managers and have urged
them to crush the union This is cs-
pccially so at the Waldorf, the
knickerbocker, the Plaza, the Van
dcrbilt and the Manhattan, where
most of the transient guests are rich
or are members Of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers arch en-
emy of union labor. The proprietor
openly boasts that the guests are
willing to take ham and eggs served
country style as long as they 90 not
give in to the union.
The strike leaders were lubllant
today. They declared that they had
so crippled the big hotels that only
the smaller dining rooms can be used
and they insisted that nearly every
proprietor where a strike was IN
progress had opened secret negotla-
tions for settlements. They insisted
that the strike will be over by the
latter part of next week and will re-
suit in complete victory for the un-
ion.
An attempt to have the questions
at issue between the walters and the
hotel proprietors arbitrated was made
today by John H. Daschner, vice-pres'
ident of the Elite head walters asso
citation, who told the hotel men thai
If they persisted in importing negroe:
and Strike-breakers from the cheaI
restaurants of the South, race riot:
will result: He interested represen
tatives of the State Department O.
Labor, but Edward Tierney, chairman
of the executive board of the Hote
Mems Association, asserted that Their
was nothing to arbitrate.
:'We intend to fight these fellows t
n finish and lick then," Tierney dc
clared, "and there is nothing doing O