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Show NEW YORK HOTELS HIRE WOMEN HELP NEW YORK, Oct. 23 The Hotel Astor today began hiring women waiters, following fol-lowing the strike called yesterday by male waiters at the McAlpin. Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf-Astoria and Ciaridge hotels. This action was taken, it was said, partly because it was feared, the strike would spread to the Astor and partly to prepare for enforcement en-forcement of the "work or fight" edict in the case of waiters. Hundreds of young women hurried to the McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria and Ciaridge Cia-ridge hotels today to, secure the jobs abandoned yesterday. The management of tho hotels declared the experiment with women waiters had resulted in improvement of dining room conditions, and said they expected to keep the young women permanently. |