The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-01
4OOO WATERS ARE NOW OUT ON STRIKE Demonstration on Fifth Avenue Causes Disorder GET STRIKEBREAKERS To Get Negro Walters From South ern Resorts-Associatio Will
 Refuse to Recognize
 The Union
GET STRIKEBREAKERS

| New York, May 31.--Addition of 100( strikers to the ranks, bringing the total to 1000, and a demonstration marked with disorder on Fifth avenue, were | tonights features of the effort of the new International Hotel Workers union to enforce recognition of the organization and to obtain increases In wages and Improvements in working conditions for employees in the kitch- ems and dining rooms of the thousands of New York eating places. l Many of the 30 hotels and restaurants affected by the strike successfully con cealed the embarrassment, but in some places the dining rooms had to be closed and restaurant service was con centrated in a single room. In almost every case 1t was said the captains re- mained loyal and although practically all of the walters and hundreds of cooks quit, skeleton crews were or ganized Of other hotel employees college boy recruits and negroes.
 To Fight to Finish The hotel men. realizing as they said, that 1t had come to "a showdown, were busy tonight mobilzinng an army of substitutes, principally from Bos- ton, Philadelphia and other eastern cities, as well as negroes from south ern winter resorts. They said they would fight to the finish. even though it might be necessary to close some Of the places.
 Union officials said. on the other hand, they had exhausted only one third of their power in this city that additions to the ranks were recorded hourly; that negotiations were on look ing to the strike of other employees, and that they expected to bring apoul practically a complete tie-up of the hotel and restaurant business In the city. and if necessary to extend the movement to other places.
 The first notable demonstration of the strike occurred late tonight when 400 men marched up Fifth avenue and halted in front of Delmonicos g, shout ing epithets at the walters there, WHO refused to join them. Policemen, with night sticks drawn, cowed the mop' and it moved along to other hotels where similar tactics were employed. Later a mass meeting took place in an opera house where the stage was plac- arded with fiery episrams.
 "Dante Inferno-A kitchens, cooks are dropping dead from heat and over work, read one. "A dollar fine for smile SS cents a day to support family" was another.
 The list of the new places where strikes were declared tonight was read and received with cheers. The list m cluded the Park Avenue, the Majestic, the Herald Square. the Honbrau, Mo quin's two places and two Bustanoby restaurants.
 A large number of other places were lfct e hut if WAS de- clared the walSouts were held or un- til tomorrow. In only a few instances did the hotel managers deny the ng- ures which the union men gave out, but all were insistent that the strike had embarrassed them less than the union claims.
 President Reed of the Hotelmen's as- sociation tonight confirmed the report that hundreds of negroes were being brought from the south and reiterated the declaration that the association ab- solutely would refuse to recognize the union.
 At the strikers mass meeting tonight William D. Haywood said he wanted to congratulate the strikers on their fight .already won." and said he was reliably informed that "even Judge Gary of the steel trust went into a hotel where he was well-known this afternoon and was unable to get so plain an order as ham and eggs.
 "The judge never dreamed that waiter was as big as he." continued Haywood but I tell you if you stand together you are bigger than the whole steel trust
 Otto Schotz, one of the strikers, sounded a new note when he said:
 I'll tell you what the strike really IS against It is against the tip. At pres ent we walters get the degradation or the tip and the boss the benefit. If the boss wants the tip so badly let him col feet it and not put all the dirty work of the business on the waiter.