The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-02
HOTELS WILL NOT
RECOGNIZE UNION
q
All Other Demands They
Are Willing to
Concede.
HIGHER WAGES
NOW IN EFFECT
But Walters and Other En-
ployes Are Not Satisfied, and
They Continue Leaving New
York's Fashionable Eating
Places, Badly Gripping
Their Service.
Especial to The Times. Dispatch ]

New York, June IA riot III which
detectives were beaten and police re-
seryes called out. tonight marked tho
walters strike. when the International
Hotel Workers Union carried Its war
fare into the fashionable Fifth Ave-
nue. district around Fifiy-ninth Street.
and called out the men In the Hotel
Netherlands. Following the spread OF
the strike into practically evtry one
of the big hotels and restaurants. sew
enty-nve men in the dining rooms OF
the Hotel savoy. adjoining the Meth
erlands. walked out. They marched
down Fifth Avenue, past the Hotel
Plaza and the Vanderbilt mansions
and at Fiftyfourth Street met group
OF walters rwho had left the Hotel Bel
mont
Thus reinforced. the Savoy writers
countermarched back to tho Mother
lands. and from the sidewalks yelled
10 the walters there TO come out and
Join them.
Plain clothes detectives who had
been marching with the strikers at
that point attempted to arrest two
leaders. and fight followed. Two of
the detectives were koocked down and
badly beaten. while third detective
managed to force ono OF the walters
against wall while nm enormous
crowd blocked the wide avenue.
deserves Called Out.
Reserves under Captain McNally
were hurried to the scene and dispersed
the mob, but some OF the men fol-
lowed the officers and their lone pris-'
oner TO the police station.
The management OF the Netherlands
said that at noon they requested all
their waters who intended 10 strike
TO go cut then, They denled tonight
that their full force had lnit
ie irpa cd hy "A
FULLY 1000 walters and cooks are now
on strike Ill phases 81 hesmetr.po-
lisa hotel life We're Affected tu-n!Siii.
About l25 walters walked out of the
magnificent dining-rcom at Dclmonl-
cos. on Fifth Avenue, about the same
time that the whole force OF walters
deserted the Hofbrau Haus. a typical
Broadway restaurant. AT the sound OF
tho whistle, the waters who had re-
manned at the Belmont. after a par
tial adjustment Of the strike. trooped
out. leaving the hungry diners With
half finished dinners on the tables. In
like manner they walked on; at tho
Kaiser Hof. the san Reno, ReIsenw,,b-
ers. the Lafayette. the tAnsonis. Man
haitian Square Hotel, Breton HAN. the
Cloesi Restaurant and the fashionabls
New York Athletic Club. Al the Ath-
letic Club 1t was said that ten bar
tenders went out with the waters. and
tnat thirsty inlllonalrc members ullAeQ
their own rickles and cocktails
March Up Great White Wny.
Secretary Blochlinger said that the
managers of the Hoffman House and
MaXim's sent for tho walters commit
tee and arranged terms before their men
were called out. The Broadway wait
ers after they struck. marched up the
Great White Way TO Forty-sccond
Street and stopped at each place where
walters We're still working. shouting
TO them to come out" Then they
went on TO headquarters in Bryants
Hall and held "A mass meeting,
One of the early developments
of the day in the hotel strike
concerned an effort on the part
or several persons to BRING about ar
bitration of the strike. Timothy Hcaly.
head OF the engineers organization,
had talk with Edward Blochlinger,
one of the leaders OF the strikers. and
at the same time. Colonel NJ. ]. Rea-
gan, and John ]. Bcilan, representing
the mediation board of the State De-
partment Of Labor, offered their SER
vices to the Hotel Mems Association
and the strikers to bring about a set
Element.
The MOTEL men expressed a willing
ness 10 meet the representatives of the
strikers after the hotel men had talked
with Reagan and Beilan. but they de-
clared they would have nothing to do
with the union.
No arrangements have reen made for
h conference with representatives or
the union. At six hotels the increas-
ed scale of wages. meaning between 10
and 20 per cent. more for walters and
buses went into effect to-day The
hotels, which have granted the in
crease and are paying It to their en-.
ployes, while the strike is unsettled.
are the Plaza. KnIckerbocker. Waldorf
Astoria Vanderbilt and Park Avenue.
All the other hotels in the association
nave agreed to ray the same scale OF
wages by September /.
Warned of Trouble.
The hotels and restaurants not al
feady affected by the strike received
word early In the day that trouble was
coming. Louis Bustanoby. vino runs
the Taverne Louis. in the Flat Iron
Building. called the walters and pusses
employed in the restaurant this morn
Ing and told them that If they must
go to leave at once. as he did not wish
to be unnecessarily handicapped. A
Few left. but the majority said they
would stand by the proprietor.
But when the restaurant was pretty
we'll crowded at the luncheon hour,
twenty-five walters. at a signal took
OF their aprons and walked out. Inside
or twenty minutes ten girls were taxi
ing the places of the walters
At the Fifth Avenue Restaurant. In
che Fifth Avenue Building, the mana.
ger, Alexander BoulanS. told the wait
ers at 10 o'clock in the morning that
they were being paid sac n month, the
new scale, and IL they were dissatis-
ned. to get out. as ne would not recoR-
nize the union. Eighty walters and
buses got out, The staff did not
oudge. The head walters and the