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Show COOKS ID WAITERS I CONTINUE DEFIANT I Addition of 1000 Strikers to the Number of Men Now Out in New York. N E W STORE May 81.The addition IH of lOOfi strikers to the rank--, bringing tbe total to 4000, and a demonstration H mark oil with disorder on Fifth avenue, were tonight's features of the offset VM of the International Hotel "Worker'' union to enforce recognition of the uM iinioj: ami to obtain increases in wages H land improvement in working conditions H for employees in New York kitchen? vM and dining rooms. vM The thirty hotels and restaurant? at- v I fected by the strike successfully con vM I cealnl their embarrassment in some uM Instances, hut. in others the dining vM rooms had to be closed and restaurant vM service was concentrated in a single The- hotel men were busy toniojsSt J mobilising an army of substitutes, principally from Boston, Philadelphia and other eastern niies, as. well as ne-groes ne-groes from southern winter resorts. j They said they would fight to the Tin iH jisb, even though it might he necessary VM to close some of the places. Union officials said thev had ex 'M hausted only one-third of their power JM in this city, that additions to the ranks were recorded" hourly, that negotia tions were on looking to the strike of Issifl other employees, and that they ex pected to tiriug about practically a com- Iplefe tie-up or the hotel and restaurant 'M business in the city, and if necessary, to extend the movement to other places. The first notable demonstration of the strike occurred Jate tonight, when ILh about 400 men marched up Fifth ave- nue and halted in front of Dolmonico "s. I'M shouting at the waiters there who re fused to .join them. Policemen cowed J the inob, and it moved along to other hotel?, where similar tactics were used. Later a mass meeting was held in an opera house, where the stage was pla- H carded with fiery epigrams. iH " Panto's inferno a kitchen; cook are dropping dead from heat and over H work,' read one A dollar fine for 'M a smile; eighty-three cents a dav to support a family,'' was another. A list of nc-w places where strike were declared tonight was rend and 'H received With cheers. The list included the Pjirk Avenue, the Majestic, the Herald (iiare, the Boffbran house, I'M Sfoquln's two places and the two Bus tanoby restaurants. ;H A large number of other plares were on the 1 i 5 t for a strike, but ir was de-dared de-dared that the walkout? were held off until tomorrow. |