Show BOSSES PROPOSE PLAN Restaurant Keepers Frkme Labor Agreement CONCESSIONS TO UNION Proprietorjs of Three Restaurants Draw Up Contract Conceding Siz Day Week t Cooks and Walters Will Meet Arbitration Committee Today to Discuss Hatter Action I Equivalent to Withdrawal From Restaurant Keepers Protective Association As-sociation The contrOversy of the cooks and waiters assumed another phase yesterday yester-day when three of the proprietors got together and drew up a counteragree meat which they have agreed to sign of In casa It meets with tIme approval the arbitration committee The members mem-bers of the latter body will meet with the three restaurant men today to talk the matter over In case an amicable amic-able understanding Is reached the Chesapeake Success Finchs McGlll Cos and possibly others will be added to the six restaurants which already have signed the union agreement EQUIVALENT TO WITHDRAWAL The action of the proprietors In thus making terms with the cooks and waiters wait-ers Is equivalent to 1 withdrawal from the association and leaves that organization organ-ization In rather bad shape With nine firms In the secession ranks and others likely to follow soon the career of the bosses protective association seems destined to die an early death Tho split occurred over the resolution to recognize no demands whatever that were proposed by the union Some of tho proprietors It appears were formerly for-merly union men themselves and this was a little more than they could stand Although they yielded at tho time It was under protest and they were glad from the of a chance to break way organization The agreement drawn up and submitted sub-mitted to the arbitration committee yesterday differs In slight particulars only from that proposed by the arbitrators arbitra-tors and It Is highly probable a mutual understanding will be reached today This is the agreement EdlPLOYERS AGREEMENT We tho undersigned do hereby agree to employ union help In our business bus-iness when available In case nonunion non-union help be employed they arc to be given ten days to Join the union and that our employees shall be en titled to lay off one day In every sven If they so desire the day to be mutually mu-tually agreed to by employer and employee em-ployee I shall bo the duty of the employee to furnish and pay an acceptable manor man-or woman a his or her substitute Not more than two employees shall lay oft on any one day and one of them shall be from the dining room and one from the kitchen The following specified days shall lie exempt from the layoff privileges New Years day Fourth of July Pioneer Pio-neer day Labor day Thanlcsgivlng day and Christmas The layoff privileges shall not apply when there shall be In the city any large political or fraternal convention church conference or some special amusement feature whose nature would tend to draw large crowds to the metropolis me-tropolis This contract does not bind us t any future demands made by the union APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT Tills agreement was shown to a number num-ber restaurant men yesterday and it Is said many of them signified their willingness to sign I The six firms who signed the original agreement It Is said are luny anxious to bo released from hat objlgatlon preferring tho substitute substi-tute contmct In all probability ten or more firms will have withdrawn from the proprietors pro-prietors association and acceded to ho demands of the union by the time the arbitration committee Is ready to make Its report to the Federation next Friday night A strong effort will then bo mado to Induce the other res taurant men to yield In like manner and the agitation will not agitton wI cease until every eatlnghouso in the city gives recognition to the sixday week |