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Show A Battle Over "Whiskers. St. Louis is the tsoene of a lively battle bat-tle between organized employers and the waiters in hotels and restaurants, etc. It is the same old strife over whiskers. whisk-ers. The employers want the men to be clean 6haven, and the employees refuse re-fuse to allow the hirsute adornment which covers their faces to be removed. The trouble has even extended to the hackmen and coachmen, who have combined com-bined with the waiters and have taken a firm stand against allowing their whiskers to bo removed. They have been seeking to obtain the sympathy of tho labor organizations of St. Louis, but the members of the Barbers' Bar-bers' union are against them and are ready to cut the objectionable whiskers off, shave them off, chop them off in short, anything to remove them. Tho legislature has taken a hand in the trouble, and two bills have been introduced, in-troduced, one requiring all waiters in hotels, restaurants, etc., to be clean shaven and the other making it a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for an employer to discriminate discrimi-nate against an employee who wears a beard. Albany Argus. |