Evening star., 1919-03-22
SAYS THE RALEIGH
ISN0T ANTtUN|ON
Manager Declares Pickets'
Proposed Renewal Contract
Merely Not. Acceptable.
CHILDREN IN PARADE

The Raleigh Hotel has no quarrel
with the Washington Walters Union,
members of which are now picketing the
hotel. Manager Edward L. Weston has
stated in information prepared es-
pecially for the patrons of the Raleigh.
Mr. Weston presented copies of the
contract with the walters which eX-
pired March II. 1919. and a copy of
the contract proposed by the walters
for renewal.
The management. not wishing to
enter into the contract proposed" Mr..
weston stated. arranged with it's
former colored walters, which it very
clearly had the right to do. AS soon
as this fact became known. the white
walters withdrew their damands, not
only as far as the Raleigh was con-
cerned,- but as to all hotels in WASH
ington employing white walters.
The Raleigh. it seems. was the only
motel which had actually made a new
so. were free TO negotiate and. doing
SO. renewed the old contract with a
few very minor changes.
The Raleigh has no quarrel with
the union" Mr. Weston concluded. IF
it had, the contracts with the i'm
II -
control would not have been entered
into. Raleigh walters were not lock-
ed out, Their contract simply had
expired. We have no hesitation in
( saying that they left the hotel in
perfectly orderly. and proper manner"
+. Suggested Agreement Long.
The proposed agreement. originally
submitted by the Walters Union, and
which was not acceptable to the hotel,
was nearly TWICE as long as the agree
ment which expired: 1t demanded that
every waiter steadily employed should
weekly wages instead of monthly; de-
manded 'palatable and wholesome
food at all meals" or 81 per day per
waiter in lieu thereof and various de-
mands concerning overtime work.
1t is declared by hotel men that
aimed at the hotels. but at various
small restaurants. the local walters
union. No. ISL, being part of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Interna-
tional Alliance. What the walters de-
lnandeJ was as follows: t-''. ..-- -.'
Demand Good Meals.
"Palatable and wholesome food
must be served at all meals. Steady
and extra walters shall have at each
neal the choice of at least one roast,
one entrec, with an additional fsI.
entree on fast days, also soup. ro-
tatoes, one vegetable coffee, tea or
milk, bread and butter. and one
dessert. ..r,
"a wholesome breakfast shall also be
served. No one kind of roast or entree
may be served more than once in any
four consecutive days. Whenever the
majority of the walters employed in
any one place decide by a majority
vote that the fooG served them is un-
satisfactory. they shall be given 81
per day. or 40 cents a meal, in lieu of
food" -
Many of the former walters of the
Raleigh have secured jobs at other
hotels and at cafes, officials of the
Raleigh declared today, in answer to
the signs borne by the pickets in front
of the hotel to the effect that the
wives and children suffering.
About half of the former Raleigh
walters have secured jobs at other
hotels, Max Holder, chairman of the
conference committee of the walters
union, said today. About half the
number of union men now picketing
the hotel every day are former wait
ers OF the Raleigh, the others being
union men who are conducting the
campaign against the hotel. :.
More than twenty children. bearing
signs, enlivened the picket parade
along. the Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street fronts of the hotel this
afternoon. This was the first appear
ance of the children, who were
brought to the rendezvous in an au-
tomobile bus by the walters union
Following a picket parade of about
an hour the children were taken for
a sightseeing tour. of the city and
then to a supper as guests of the
union.