The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-11
TAFT WATERS
 90 ON STRIKE.
RICH AND PROMINENT YALE STUDENTS JUMP INTO BREACH AND SERVE HOTELS
 GUESTS.

New Haven, June 11-Just as din- ner was being served at o'clock last night at the Hotel Taft, s7 walters and bus boys, and a. girl cashier, who had presented demand to Manager tionals Hotela Workers Union and were. refused. were paid off by the management and walked out In the twinkling of an eye 67s Yale students explained by John Jacob Westerman, 1912. of Philadelphia, one of the veal Pefcy orthwein, 1912, equally promi- nent, took upssthe. discarded napkins and served the. patrons with satisfac- fiOn to management and diners.
 'gs At 10:S0 last Nntg Y four of the 20 cooks. at the 4hote1 fin "a mess meeting 5slnssS so seIsI E9 psea t ss and tH. tbs working force 6f the biz hosteIry walking out in "a demand for retogni- ton of the union Of. Hotere Workers.
 Last night ats N:17 a group of 25 strike breaking wafters sfron1gs New ts asgk siast ea%s up ta ss rsa gsasss o5 ;proSnised yfe sentlnSe sat fkeiiIss dufies sttddRg and Aoro he ghattsll .aaennent .;wantas ss;st;sssif
 =, Manager Merry Saye he, has snelay of F25 nnens c6rning {. .llp every day. for seven UdyS- pO5 I4Is3 QtasSSi OIs LElA- CTS, and is in mo way nconvenIeneed by the. walkopt while the students agree to walt Mpqn les ;sin 5fheir caps and gowns on grAd not ton day If their aid is Qe1tr4 d.s fp. serve fheir friends At ltlilB Tizpe ,of < the year. when .the hotel is part icular1y full. mencement the waikout swas hoped by the mensto prove very embarrassing
 Trouble has been brewing N among the hotel sworkerss; since Saturday, when they met in the ball room Of fhe Taft and reviewed their grievances. a recognition sof, the international Gene va Walters union, different food sand larger lockers. a.sss sF.tfsss sss Y
 An agreement was drawn up. em- bodying these demands and presented to Manager Merry for signature at 1O:30s yesterday morning. He took no cognizance of it until 5:S0 last even ing, when his answer was given in a wholesale paying off of all the work CTS, with the instructions that their grievances were at an end and he would hire over any who wished to apply, without reference to the union. The. walters refused and walked out upon instructions from Fred J. Hing and F. A. Erb, organizers of the strike at the Waldorf Knickerbocker and other New York llostelries, who had. come here to direct the men, should they fail to receive their de- mands. gs.s. s4s ss,t
 MT. Merry had been prepared for the walk-out He was walking with the two Yale men, Westerman and Orthweip, at dinner and they offered to give him as many seniors as he could use for walters. Acting upon his suggestion the students were wait ing in the hotel lobby, ready to be called upon Westerman said last night the students were doing the work as a personal favor to MT. Mer- ry, and if necessary they would do it; all week. even in cap and gown. in order not to inconvenience their guests who*are filling the hotel for -,s
 Among the men who handled the napkins with dexterity were Carroll Hincks of the Law school, ,.-z former manager of the football team; R. J. MiIholIand, 1912, a brother of Inez Milholland, the beautiful suffra- gette": B. F. Brundred, a crew man; ]. Doneghy, prominent 1911 man; R. R. Chamberlain, 1910 SIR. Jeff freys, crew man; Palmer, Yale News editor: R. Derrick. 1913; a prominent Skull and Bones man, H.. Warren; R. Dayison. 1913; " Murphy, 1912: J. Campbell: c. W: Miles, R y Carpen- ter. 1912: R. G.. Lupton. 1912: S. King, dramat man. 1914; and H. Vail, 1912. But for the fact that many or the prominent Yale men have returned home, the list would be augmented considerably ins prestige. <,