The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-29
RESTAURANTS YIELD
TO WATERS TERMS
Thanksgiving Dinners Served
as Usual in the Big Up
town Places.
PARADE IN BROADWAY
Some Definite Agreement on
Wages Expected at Joint
Meeting OH Monday.

An alleged eleventh hour surrender
by New York restaurant proprietors
to the demands of their walters for
weekly wage of $12 and a raise Of So
every payday for their cooks was re-
sponsible yesterday for Thanksgiv-
ing festivities at cabarets along Broad
way running their normal course.
The expected strike OF the restau-
rant workers, which it was feared
would put a crimp in the delivery Of
the days output of turkey and cram
berry sauce, did not materialize. and at
n meeting Of the striking walters from
ten of the city's largest hotels, held in
the New Amsterdam Opera House, 1t
was announced by union officials that
the Society of Restaurateurs had
agreed to all of the most important
demands" and would send Otto Wag-
ner, its chairman, to Reisenweber's at
8 o'clock Monday afternoon. when a
peace pact would be signed with the
This statement was greeted with
cheers, as was the prediction that the
Hotel Mems Association would also
come to terms soon.
No Red Flags in Parade.
That. the walters may be oversan-
guine OF their movement was indicated
last night by Tom Healy, member of
the Society of Restaurateurs, who said
that as far as he knew no demands
had been presented and no agreement
to grant any had been made. He be-
lieved, he said, that the matter might
come up for action at meeting of the
society, to be held to-day.
The mass meeting followed a parade
OF 1000 of the hotel and restaurant
workers already on strike. Members
Of their families Joined in the demon
stration, and a large force Of police
patrolled the line OF march between
Columbus Circle and Herald Square.
surmising that a display Of red flags
might be attempted in violation Of
Mayor Hylan's order. Not even
splash OF red was visible, and most OF
the marchers carried the Stars and
Stripes.
The parade was headed by a small
band that played patriotic airs. There
were innumerable small paper banners
which bore inscriptions calculated TO
irritate the hotel and restaurant pro-
prietors. Some OF them read: Roast
beef 81 a cut, lamb chops at IS cents
each, and still the arrangements say
they lose money; Abolish the tip
ping system: DO away with charity,
justice for all; Hotel men are patri-
otto, they charge more and give less"
Walters Claim Victory.
After the mass meeting union off,
Gals gave out the following statement:
The parade had been planned for a
general strike demonstration, the
union having presented demands for
wage increases TO $50 hotel and res
taurant proprietors. The general
strike in the restaurants planned for
Thanksgiving dinner time was not
called, for the Society of Restaura-
tours notified the union Wednesday
night that it was willing to grant the
most important demands. The soCiety
asked that il be given until Mondny
afternoon at 3 o'clock for formal re-
ply to the union. for all members
must he called together to act on a de-
mand for wage raises.
Tho executive committees of the
union and restaurant mems associa-
ton will meet at Reisenweber res
taurant Monday afternoon TO draw up
the peace pact"
Should the document be ratified the
union will be free TO turn its entire
attention to the hotels. The Hotel
Mems Association, it was said. had not
committed itself in regard to a settle
mont. Most Of the ten hotels affected
used young women mattresses yester-
day with complete success. It WAS
said that there was a slight scarcity
of help in some of the hotel kitchens
but that there were no serious delays
in serving guests.