The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01
MANAGERS DEFY
 STRIKE WATERS
Hotel Men Say Nothing to Arbitrate and Will Fight
 to Finish

New York, June 1.-Despite the fact that 21 hotels. six restaurants and two clubs were affected, today, by the walters strike, the Hotel Managers Association defiantly declared that there would be no compromise. The real crux of the situation is union recognition. Most of the hotels de- clare their willingness to grant the men the increases in wages. shorter work days and reforms in discipline asked, but they demand the men must come back to work as lndlvid- uals. The men contend they will treat only as union members.
 So far the strike has been singular ly free from disorder. There have been some arrests but they were by over jealous policemen and not due to disturbances. 1t is expected by noon, tomorrow, the number or men out will exceed 5000.
 The committees of the union meet every train that comes in and at pres ent have succeeded in organizing three-Quarters of the strikebreakers imported. Many of these men insist ed they did not know a strike was in progress and accepted tickets back to their homes. The hotel men brought a large number of college boys here and tried them out but they were not satisfactory as walters. They were prone to argue with guests and they declined to submit to the rigid dis head walters with the result that af- ter a few hours trial the majority threw up their jobs in disgust.
 Southern negroes are being tried as an experiment but in only one hotel. The Plaza, are they giving satisfac- ton.
 At the Plaza cots have been placed in fho ho1 most expensively furnishedl rooms in the hotel and there the negroes sleep as the police have warned the manage ment that if their imported blacks roam the city at will they will have strenuous time of it at the hands of entertainment committees"
 Only the tolerance of guests has made it possible for many of the ho- tels where the strike is on to keep their dining rooms open at all. Many of the guests have openly taken sides with the managers and have urged especially so at the Waldorf, the Knjckerbocker, the Plaza, the Van derbilt and the Manhattan, where most of the transient guests are rich or are members of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, arch ene- my of union labor.
 The strike leaders were jubilant, to- day. They declared that they had crippled the big hotels, that only the smaller dining rooms can be used, and they insisted that nearly every pro- prietor, where a strike was in pro- gress, had opened secret negotiations for a settlement. They insisted that the strike would be over by the latter part of next week and will result in a complete victory, for the union.
 An attempt to have the questions at issue between the walters and the hotel proprietors arbitrated was made. today, by John H. Dashner, vice-pres- ident of the Elite Headwaiters' As- sociation who told the hotel men that if they persisted in importing negroes and strik ebreakers from the cheap restaurants of the south, race 1iots will result. He furnished reports of the state department of labor but Ed ward Tierney, chairman of the execu- tive board of the hotelmen's associa- tion. insisted that there was nothing to arbitrate.
 We intend to fight these fellows to