Show TO DEGIDEON STRIKE Cooks and Waiters Have Important Im-portant Meeting Today REMOVAL OF UNION CARDS Arbitration Committee Prom Federation Federa-tion of Xiabor Will Receive Instructions Instruc-tions Today From Labor Union and Will Meet Employers Tomorrow Lively Debate Probable in Union Ranks as Many Are Opposed to Taking Extreme Mwsurcs Proprietors Pro-prietors Stand Firm The action of the Cooks and Walters union at their meeting this afternoon the extent will determine to a Jnrgaextcnt wl future course oC tho dispute between the union and the restaurant proprietors proprie-tors At that meeting the arbitration committee from the Federation oC Labor La-bor wU be Instructed how to proceed in approaching the proprietors on the question of compromise I the instruction instruc-tion Is to Insist upon the signing of the agreement once presented and rejected there Is little doubt th employers will refuse to consider It From tho prevailing temper of tho representatives of both sides a general strike seems the most probable outcome of the controversy The concession asked by the union seems to Us members mem-bers very reasonable and Just Jt Is in brief that each cook and waiter and dishwasher be allowed to lay off one day every week emplo lnGa substitute at his own expense An agreement to this effect was drawn up and presented but to the proprietors for signature was signed at only three restaurants the Chesapeake the Columbia and tho Free Coinage The Chesapeake afterward after-ward asked to have iS signature withdrawn with-drawn drwn Yesterday President Tyler of tho Union ordered removed from alP the other restaurants the union cards which hod been placed In tho windows In 1n some of thee places none but union help Is employed but the rejection ot tho agreement was regarded as an evidence evi-dence of hostility to the labor organization tnn The employers are firm In their statements state-ments that they will not consider the unions proposition for a moment Many of them fro perfectly willing to grant trint the concession desired orl Its t equivalent equiva-lent but they flatly decline to be bound by any written agreement tC that effect ef-fect any I they sea n reason why they should voluntarily handicap themselves in the conduct of their business affairs We will be glad to entertain any proposition of compromise that will tend to maintain friendly relations with the union said Harry Finch secretary secre-tary of the Hotel and Restaurant Keepers Protective association Many of us employ none but urijqn labor and we have no desire to go outside of the uniOn Co help AL the samo time we cannot afford to tie ourselves up with a written Ironclad agreement of the kind presented Not Infrequently there are convention WOkS and other exceptionally busy seasons when it Is simply Impossible to let men off for < day Under this agreement the men could take their vacations every week regardless of everything As for the substitutes suggested everybody knows It Is not easy to pick tip a competent assistant any day In tho week I Is all right for the men to get a layoff l and we are entirely willing to grant It but we want to regulate the matter ourselves our-selves I President Tyler of the union is confident con-fident the proprietors will give in and grant tie concession He says the cooks and waiters are so strong and well organized that the employers would bo practically helpless to resist their demands especially when backed by the Influence and assistance of all tho other labor organizations In the city cityThe matter will be thoroughly discussed dis-cussed at the meeting today and l lively debate IK assured as mon of the more conservative members of the union especially those with 1 families to support are very much averse to any action that would Intensify and prolong pro-long tho controversy I the more radical radi-cal members prevail the strike Is sure to follow |