| Show l ALKS ON ONI I TIPPING LYS Is a Slave Should Be Resisted by if Laborer ITER OFTEN iTER i m IS EXPERT THIEF B i jn Is 15 a Nuisance m in Europe a Crying Evil I ling in America Sr BY BY FR FREDERIC DERIO J. J HASKIN am el Gompers president of the lean n Federation of Labor for fori or five i years cars ars an advocate ocate of the ts of labor labor and aud connected with e ef- ef s fc 0 organize the working people jeves eves that the tipping system is lB an aniie antS tS evil operating to undermine independence l of the working mani man discussing the problem he said Mid T The American laboring man tas tasa iasa i a vantage ov over r the workers of pe pet and that is is that while ho he isi is i absolute independent be he ii is I Is s servile The tipping system is cheated l upon servility Th Tb The amatin amazing growth of th the tip- tip il e-il in this country both in in the of the tips demanded and given n min ithe the increase of the things for ar are exacted grieves s me other true friends of the workman work work- Labor man r cannot achieve independence milt holds out a L palm to bo he greased wears wars the cringing smirk of a aTh afe ahe fe t Th he tipping g sv system tem is is detestable tri truly y intelligent man nian it is is oral ting to all persons who are with it either as a's as givers of fas tak takers rs of 1 lips or 01 as tho ulti- ulti of tipsY tips Y TJI oDI only beneficiary of the Ule tip tip- stem ley-stem is the he employer er who tak takes s antage of it to employ workers bout out paving paying them and aid even eten his fits can in be measured only olly i in n or the s system stem demoralizes his hit hood Th whole bol tipping system is is bad pelis nothing good iii in it Its Tt rapid 1 in in the United States in inre re rc recent pDt eat lin Y be attributed in part to the tho of of European manners erf and personal servants but wh where whre re is a nuisance in Europe ha ai u ube become be me a arving rvin i evil h here e. e man ought to r resist its her 1 f spread and development 1 Taking tog Is Degrading banian who takes a tip cloaks him him- cAl a mantle of servility that de- de Id him from the plane of free la la- fj fand and makes of him a slav slave He lie Helnor snot not this be- be escape ape consequence ons bv by lnor impolite polite to the tip giver his her will will- ness to accept the fee is is the collar liis his his' serfdom Most men who take this and resent it but like other slaves of all other times they 1 bond ond fl servants who are arp not free to rc sp their wills It is is true that I Iare r are not serfs bound to a a. certain f r und nor chattels to be he sold I i th their ir masters master's pleasure Serfs and slaves were always sure of ethin to eat at and the slaves s of dr dern derp 1 industry are ure not fake ake for instance a wait waiter r in in a k restaurant of the more ex- ex ike 81 0 kind He ne is paid from rom 13 to month a or a dollar a da day the th proprietor He Ire must lend head waiter an average crage of 5 a k He lie must II divvy with the er IP and see ee that the chef and the theer er cooks are Ire friendly by dividing And then hen he ha has to port iii his hil family and save Faye a bit for pill old a age e It is true that he is free fre quit whenever er he hI pleases and seek spek but he is a waiter force of ot circumstance he ho knows t work and no other and if he t kelp keep a job he be will starve stane e Despises Tipper nd bd r r thi this compulsion and because En p the li tine line of least resistance he be erlIle and he ho is obsequious and beS be he S kO tips tips tips-as as many and aid as bi lug big he an get et He lie takes tips from a an aU and of men men men-men meu who wl t buy uI cheap distinction m men n who th they y are sorry for the tho site I e mf meu w who tip P because it i Is i i a lt l men en who tip because they t must Tie He despises thorn thom 1 m Jr n n his 5 heart of ot h hearts arts Ho Ire abne ab- ab Uhle ne the f cheap V Pt gilt of ot the tho tipping snob im es tho poor devil who ho tips tipI from pl 1 lIua ho he hates hatos tho man who tip tips for or fear the waiter w. will bis food And Ar yet he be is a ser per fil creature creaturo who cannot li he must smile ana and smirk r CL er He Ic cannot canoot bo a free freo man mana tI n a ake e 1 a tip bp Mid And this us is 18 not his fault It I is The tho ho 1 I the tipping system And the tho ping ing system is the fault of tho pro proS I lorB and ami employers who h have c carcil care care- il I nurtured and encouraged ld it its EtO fiLU w for r what hat there is in it for lit The late Inte George Pullman is if soi ac so- Jd 1 i wb whether i i justly or unjustly of rig saul said Wh when When n the people are Dou n to pay the sleeping car cai I why h. shoula we i pay jy ay nt 1 il I That hat is 18 the theory upon which ch employers have bave proceeded d and that kuy the tipp tipping n stein si-stein ID has develLa devel devel- La d r linto nto its us modern complexity ha haf it is is not oot the fault of wait wait- them as representing the tho class of tip takers is proved pro Ithe the fact that nearly er e every waiter ift a large city city it hotel or restaurant will willis lt t his bis is job in to take a pla place Isi club lub where livi living 1 wages are arc paid I nero there is no tipping Waiters I. I nake 40 a areek week reek net under r the tho ing Jn sy system tem wilt will gladly take a 1 place a at 30 The s same me thin thing may mar aid of i. s porters and other gits ts of that lint class I ity Cannot Attend Clubs Club not everybody eler ca can be- be Continued on page GOMPERS T TALKS ON TIPPING Continued from page from page I lon long to a club chub The vast majority of the time American traveling public must depend depond de de- de pond pend upon public inns for food and lod lodging ing The Cite minority ity of isso isso is isso so small that it hardly counts at all alt But Bitt it is is universally universally- admitted th tint t the time service in mu a good club is better than that of the time best hotels hotel r The he servants are more e polite prompt inore au and more moore punctilious us They get no tip tips They are Taid paid living warns va Qs They perform persona service ser yet yet they they are aie not Hot servile ser ser- vile They are erna emancipated from froum the chains that enslave thc their r fellow worker work work- er er thy they are nrc free men omen Under circumstances it is all the inore to bo ho re regretted rettel that tho tipping tip tip- pin ping is out into system reaching new stew fields The Tho barber trade is is' being ruined mine l by bv it Others are arc aro threatened by br an invasion of the evil The Time leaders headers of ot I or organized labor men of Jf if th tub tho broad view and information of Mr Mi Oom- Oom pers pel'S are aro thoroughly alarmed and arc are doing e everything in iii their ir power not only to lim limit t the time extension of time the pernicious pernil per per- nil ou system but alj alo almo o to eliminate te the time evil enl where it already has crept in m. Tipping Blunts Sensibilities When a mans man's freedom is destroyer destroyed his Ills moral immoral e is ef endangered langere The tipping tem system blunts the tue moral immoral ensi- ensi sensibilities of the tip taker and makes a blackmailer if not a thief out of ot many a man who otherwise would be bc beh h honest Of course the time great reat majority nine nine out of every ten of the tIme waiters walters porters cabmen barbers and mind other tip takers in ma the time country are arc honest homiest men But Bitt not even the toast most t delicato delicate consideration consid for the time feelings of the time honest nine flume can hide the fact thiat that the time tenth man is dishonest A large catering house in New York makes a specialty of dinners given n inthe in inthe inthe the hom homes s of the rich It gives gins perhaps forty dinners ers a ese forty forty for for- ty lays days out o of the time 5 it must keep together to to- gether its or organization a of chiefs chefs waiters wait wait- ers era and amid other assistants It must charge charLe enough h for the tho forty days lays to pay tom for the time This concern follows time the example of the time other employers under under un un- der the tipping system and anti pays pays- its men omen little or nothing Waiters employed in this work mu must t be hi highly skilled Time The cat caterer depends s for hits his patronage upon his ability t to tn serve a dinner without t the thic slightest hitch bitch or stumble of any kind The waiters ho Ito employs are 2 2 a day when they work work work-an an average n of i tSO SO a year They get et no tips The host ai at ata it rt a dinner party may mav give a very large tip to tho time head wa waiter tr but hut Ito Iro gives ives none at all aU to the serving waiters whiter nor docs does any auy one of the time guests guesta These waiters must live The question is How do they do it How Tipping Makes Thieves On One hears these tales in out of the way places on the east cast side r-ide of the main mail artery of Manhattan 1 life places life places where men who w would uld reform the time world worM meet to be frank with each ech other There is isone isone one waiter who is said to be able to bite a jewel from a woman womans woman's s 's hair orna orna- meat ment as he lie is ii servin serving an ire ice ice and that thai without a attracting the time attention of even cven the time other waiters Another is s said irl to tobEl tobe tobe be bEl an adept in finding things things' on the floor If there thero is much champagne there aro aie more niora things timings to be found on ott tho floor Jt It may mav may be hard to believe such things but how about believing believing- that a man can ClU live on wages waLIS of SU Sui SUa SIJa a year and no tips If it not for the time influence of the tipping tipping- s sy tern tem men employed by such caterers would be he paid a li lili living li wa wage th thic the per perSons per per- sons who give he the dinners would pay pa for it and there would he be no opportunity opportunity for clever clover jewel thieves to learn to be clever er waiters an and get t these jobs johs from the time caterers It may bc be objected that this is an tin o ex cx- tieme instance and it is is But Rut nevertheless never ll theles's it is a logical outcome of the system wherebY workmen who are need need- cd ed to dp lo necessary work are aro forced to get their pay not from oat t the he man milan man who employs them but from front the tIme public hon hO ef cathy if if they can d dishonestly if they must The Time sole soIl beneficiary of the is is the employer When a hotel hotI or a restaurant fixes fLes it its charges they thoy are aIl fixed to include service But the guest guestis t is expected to over oer a again ain for this service and the difference is is po by tho the The flue man who gives ives the time tip pays more the tho man who t kes the tip tippets gets less the time em employer gets et th ti I money mone is in the time end |
