New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-13
To Meet the Issue Squarely.

| If the present trouble assumes serious
! proportions. and II III" men who have rec
manned loyal 10 US 50 TAR are forced Ca
! leave either tecausc Of fear or injury to
| themselves or members Of their family.
| then We shall meet the issue squar"ly and
| fearlessly We have prOfitcd greatly by
! the experiences Of the last strike and We
can and We viii take care OF our business
| interests
one Of the threats made by the leaders
is that the union will make an intcrmit-
| tent fight SO as 10 hardss and worry the
hotel prOprIctOIs, thus forcing them o.
keep a large force Of strike breakers CON
Stantlv on hand. which would entail an
enormous expense. But r such s. their
! intention they are 10 be disappointed
Therefore, If at any time our interests
Should be ieOpardzcd We viii close our
dining rooms. excepting those needed for
the guests living i'm the house and our
steady patrons. and meet the situation hy
employing only the walters VINO have re-
fused TO walk out. And. last but not
| least. We propose 10 stand behind and pro-
! teCt our loyal employees. We are not go
ing TO allow them to DE attacked while on
| their way 10 and from work and neither
viii We allow the men 10 be mol"Stcd In
their own homes or their families 10 be
threatened
MI Campbell. assisted by corps Of de
tectives, will secure the evidence in all
| these cases and lay II before the proper
! authorities. and our workers are going 20
| he assured that they Will have the entire
| Hotel Association behind them and that
every case when reported viii be imm"-
dIately acted upon and vigorously prose-
cuted.
! Yesterday afternoon word reached the
! ears Of those i'm charge Of the striking
walters that those whom they are light-
! ing, the hotel proprietOrs. had installed a
| photograph somewhere i'm Bryant Han.
where the walters have been holding their
J meetings. They also heard that the hotel
/ men each night or the following morn
! ing received detailed reports from certain
! "unfaithfuI' walters who attended the
meetings. They seemed chiefly concerned
about the dictograph's having recorded
! EttOr's remarks on Friday night.
Carlos Treska. one of ;hc Industrial
Workers of the World leaders now in
charge Of the strike, said last night at
the mass meeting that within two days.
probably at Tuesdays meeting they
would issue an appeal to every class OF
employees i'm hotels 10 call general strike.
a vote would be taken upon IT, he said.
At that meeting there Will be a number
Of prominent labor organizers who will
| talk 10 the strikers.
| Arturo GiOvannitti, Ettor's companion.
ted the strikers at the mass meeting IN
! Bryant Hall last night that the remarks
OF Ettor as printed I'm the newspapers
were untrue and had been printed. either
maliciously or In error, by capitalistlc
editors.
"Of course said he the purpose Of
this and every other similar organization
is to do away with all millionaires. We
are not going 10 poison them, but do far
worse-make good men OF them. II We
want TO put them I'm a sevcn-foot grave
/ we can refuse 10 work FOR them and
! starve them 10 death No. our most pow
erful weapons arc our arms. folded across
our breasts in idleness / want 20 corrcc.
the printed statement OF Ettor only in -
far as it appeared in the press. / am not
defending him-hc is well able 20 do that
himself"
II was noticed that most Of the large
hotels had posted greater force Of pTi
vate detectives both inside and outside OF
their buildings than at any time since
the inception Of the strike. Many Of III.
hotel managers, no doubt, have ALREADY
learned OF the declaration that a genera
strike would be called on Tuesday.