The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07


ST., at S pm.
Hotels yesterday morning, disregard
ing the action of their officials.
AT the same time it was reported in
the offices of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union that the strike of $50
hotel workers at the William Penn
Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. had spread
TO the Fort Pitt hotel and other hote's
we're being involved in Pittsburgh. A
call to all locals Of the Food Workers
Industrial Union throughout the
country was sent out through the
+ special strike issue of the unions
ofncial organ the FcOd Worker calling
upon the hotel workers to prepare for
. struggles in the hotel and restaurant
Of their cities.
At Palm Garden, where the strikers
had gathered yesterday to march to
The demonstration, they we're told by
( Organizer CaIdes Of the Amalgamated
to stay away.
Strike Leaders Curb Action
In answer to a statement by a group
Of strikers that the demonstration
had been planned with the sanction
Of the Park Central Hotel strike COM
mittee Field, secretary Of the Anal
4 gamated, said we recognize no strike
committee"
I'm against left wing demOnstra-
tons that start fights with the
roIice.. said Field. I'VE lose the
sentiment OF the public" Thus Field
held the strikers responsible for the
brutal police clubbing Of strikers in
Mondays m.litsnt picketing at the
Hotel Waldorf Astoria and revealed
clearly that the AmaIgamated off,
cials are for policy of sitting mass
action.
Despite the action Of the Anal
gamated officials, the strikers, TN
daunted, gathered 800 strong at 36th
st. and Eighth Ave. and marched to
the Hotel New Yorker
Shouting slogans of Don't scab
strike" the workers swung into line
and circled the hotel several times
From the New Yorker they marched
on to the Hotel Pennsylvania, where
the street rang with the shouts OF the
workers against the scabS in the
Pennsylvania dining room and the
scab taxi men at the hotel curb. The
marchers later turned back again tC
the New Yorker and after parading
by the Colby cafeteria opposite the
New Yorker where q strike has Just
been called by the cafeteria depart
nent Of the Industrial Union, they
finally dispersed
Endangers Strike
The policy Of the AmaIgamateo
officials to stifle all militant action
and place their faith in the MIRA
Was characterized as endangering the
interests of the strike and playing
directly into the hands of the strike
breaking N.R.A. by william Albert
son, organizer of the Hotel and Res
taurant Union. THE NR.A. Will dc
nothing for the strike unless They
are forced TO act by the militant mass
pressure of the strikers. Mass &C.
ton must be continued, intensified
and better organized than hereto
fore. Support for the strike will grow
among wide sections of the popula.
tion only when the demands for
improving miserable conditions OF
The workers in the hotels are placed
in the forefront" said Albertson.
1T is significant that Mrs. Her
rich of the NR.A. did not dare tt
speak to the striking fur workers, Of
to the striking shoe workers led by
militant leaders Of the industrial
Union, as she spoke to the weak
Facilitating leadership of the Anal.
gamated who came to the MIRA
with a small committee Of s instead
of mass delegation Of strikers, theii
wives and children to back up theil
demands. With united ranks anc
intensified militant mass action, The
strike will go forward to victory sale
Albertson.
Strikers Militant
Proof that the strikers will not heec
he officials policy of preventins
militant demonstrations was eyidenl
IN the battle put up by the striker.
against the police who tried to pre-.
vent picketing at the demonstration
at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Monday
night.
With members Of the Industria
Union and the Amalgamated uniteC
on the picket line, 1000 pickets in,
Guiding women and children paradec
in front Of the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel and around the hotel despite
all attempts to block them. Aftel
encircling the hotel several time,
police tried TO dispense them witt
their clubs.
In the battle which followed sey,
eral pickets were beaten. A militan
woman picket defended her children
against police clubs after her hus.
band, striker had been brutally beater
by police.
Later in the evening, the strikers
niassed at the Casino de Paree where
they showed their indignation against
the strikebreakers who attacked their