New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-18
TO CONFER WITH WATERS
Hotel Men Receive Demands and
Will Name Committee.
UNION RECOGNITION SOUGHT
Workers Will Fight for This to
the Last-All Glasses Of
of Help Conceived.

Disseminated waiterdom, after almost two
weeks OF agitation. got together yesterday
and decided just what it was all about and
why. and then sent an official list OF
troubles to the Hotel Association Of New
York CITY. The association was in session
at the time on other matters. II was said,
and after looking over the list OF grieV-
ances brought by committee from the
International Hotel Workers Union. sent
out word that committee would be APP
pointed to confer with a committee from
the union next Friday afternoon.
This is the biggest victory We have Yet
won" said the union officials. In receiv-
ing our demands and sending back word
that they would confer with our committee
the hotel men have taken the first step In
recognizing the union. That is vital
point"
Although We have heard that there was
trouble among the walters and that they
were agitatng for changes. through what
we read in the newspapers" said Edward
NJ Tierney, chairman of the Hotel Asso-
cations executive committee. this COM
munication which We received yesterday
from them was the first official knowledge
we had that they had any grievances that
they wanted remedied. This whole matter
has been referred to the executive commit
tee and we will meet them next week on
Friday. | think the public will see then
that we are business men who know how
10 handle the situation and will be salts
fed with the way the matter will be
settled"
The demands formulated by the execu-
tive committee Of the Hotel workers
Union, after many all night sessions. COW
cred all branches of hotel help.
For steady walters and "omnibuses' the
demands were for one day week on.
ten-h hour working day. so week for
steady walters and s. week for steady
"omnlbuses." AS TO surroundings, they
demanded clean, spacious. well ventilated
helps dining rooms" sanitary lockers AMI
toilets and one locker for each individual
waiter. For overtime they asked for con-
tinuous time at 80 cents an hour for walt
ers and % cents for "Omnbuses." Their
other demands were for good, wholesome
food" daily change Of menu. no fines
weekly pay and that no employee should be
discharged l.ithout the signature Of the
MANAGEMENT on his pay check. and every
waiter and omnibus should be permitted
to furnish his own clothes and should not
be charged for buttons or badges.
The demands for extra walters were: For
banquet service, morning walters to get a.
evening walters TO get SO and luncheon
walters 10 get 81 %. these rates to apply
when only one menu was served. The diff
ferent rates are 10 remunerate men, II was
said. according to the length CT their work
ing day, a morning waiter kept at night
TO serve a banquet being kept the most
hours at work
For a Ia carte service walters engaged
by the day are TO receive g. or 81 20 q
meal IL engaged by the meal Steady
luncheon or evening walters, 1t was de-
manded. are 10 receive S. a week.
Other demands. which officials OF the
union said Yesterday were ones they would
fight for TO the last. were that the union
should be recognized by the hotel men and
that employment OF extra and steady wait
ars and other hotel help should be through
the union. point is also made that the
trouble between the Hotel Belmont and the
walters who walked out there in protest
against the head waiter, Victor Pearl, shall
be arbitrated
For all classes 81 help not mentioned in
these demands II was decreed by the union
that 10 per cent Increase I'm wages should
be given. But most forms Of help are men
TONED. in that minimum Of s. week
and one day or with pay, Is 10 be given to
chambermaids. 81 az minimum and one