The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-01-30
WAGE HOTEL FIGHTS
SEVERAL THOUSAND employees
OF HOsTELRiEs JOIN IN
RioTiNG.
SCORES HURT IN MELEE.
One Proprietor's Life Threatened
Windows as High as Sixth
Floor Broken by Stones
and Bricks.

New York, Jan. PA series OF
demonstrations and disturbances oc-
Cured in the hotel and restaurant dis
trict OF this city when thousands OF
striking walters and sympathizers oy-
erran some of the principal streets
and engaged in serious rioting.
The rioting followed successes by
several thousand hotel employees in
gripping the dining service In a num-
Der OF big hotels. Failing to tie up
other hosteleries and restaurants, the
riotous elements carried on a war
fare OF jostling patrons, turning In
false alarms of fire, attacking walters,
who have not walked out, and throw
ing bricks through windows.
Jostle Theatre Crowds.
When the theatre audiences began
10 pour forth, the disturbers were still
overfowing the sidewalks. Men and
women in evening clothes were forced
into the streets as gangs of idlers
swept down Upon them. Many fights
resulted when escorts retaliated with
fists.
The life OF enc proprietor, James
B. Regain of the Hotel Knickerbocker,
has been threatened, II is said. Re-
gan has thrown a guard Of 60 special
policemen, each man more than six
feet tall, around his hotel, and has
announced his intention OF keeping RI
citing walters away from his doors.
Regan Thursday discharged his entire
force of walters. having anticipated a
strike, and hired others in their places.
At every police station in the hotel
district, the reserves were prepared
for a call at any moment, and squad
after squad was sent forth to quell
disturbances.
Ritz-Cariton Stormed.
In the course of the disorder, 200
striking walters stormed the Ritz-Carl-
ton hotel and swung one OF the big
revolving doors from it's socket in
their rush. Others. from vantage
points outside, threw stones and sue
ceeded in breaking windows as high
as the sixth floor in the Carlton house
apartments, where Police Commits
sioner Waldo has rooms.
During the attack several pistol
shots we're fired, by which side in the
scrimmage was not apparent at the
moment. As a result of the disturb
ance under his window Commissioners
Waldo personally summoned police re-
serves from the nearest station house.
Some of the hotel and restaurant
managers, alarmed q. the trend of the
nights events, said they anticipated
asking Sheriff Hamburger to call out
his 1000 deputies to put down the dis,
turbers. The more agitated among
them added that they were considering
q call on Governor Sulzer for protec.
ton through the militia. 1t was con.
sidered by most of those chiefly con.
cerned, however, that the police were
amply able to cope with the situations
Sheriff Hamburger said that he
would call his deputies out IL 1t was
found necessary and he was called
upon TO do so.
Among the strikers were 900 wait
ers and other employees at the new
Hotel McAlpin. The diningroom force
at the Twenty-third street branch Of
the ". M. C. A. also Joined the strike
One Case Cited.
Among many persons hurt durins
outbreaks was Dominick Leonora. Q
cook said to be on strike. Leonors
was attacked near strike headquar
tiers and left lying in the gutter. HI,
skull vas fractured and he was taker
In a serious condition to a hospital.
Several hundred strikers attacked
two non-union walters outside the Ho
tel Aston and seriously injured then
before police dispersed the mob
Three men were arrested.
The strikers marched to Stanley,
restaurant making a demonstration
Another battle with the police II
which 400 strikers weie involved, en-
sued. Some of the strikers carried
railroad spikes. A detective and sew
eral strikers were injured. The polio,
arrested nine men while quelling thii
riot.
The hotel workers union made Il
declaration of war in a statement re
citing the strikers demands and de
claring that unless they are satisne,
10000 employees will quit work within
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