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Strike at Bryant Hall (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Natalie González said:

  awesome! it looks so vinatage!

• Richard Norton said:

  The Hotel workers strike that grew to the Waiters strike: URGE CHAMBERMAIDS TO JOIN THE UNION; Rose Pastor Stokes and Other Speakers Appeal to Women Hotel Workers. June 9, 1912, Sunday The doors of Bryant Hall, in Sixth Avenue, below Forty-second Street, were thrown wide yesterday to admit the women hotel workers -- chambermaids, laundresses and scrubwomen -- who were summoned to a massmeeting designed to stir the spirit of unionism among them, whom, so far, it has not particularly moved. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03E7D6103AE633A... YOUNG WOMAN LEADS THE WAITERS' STRIKE; Miss Flynn the Real Power Behind the Men -- Carries Anti-Tip Proposal. January 14, 1913, Tuesday Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the I.W.W. organizer, who was the principal speaker at a mass meeting of the International Hotel Workers' Union in Bryant Hall last night, took her audience by surprise by springing a proposal against tip-taking, and after considerable uproar and wrangling in four languages the final vote was unanimous against accepting gratuities if a living wage could be obtained from the hotel proprietors. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01E6D8123BE633A...

• Wystan said:

  Other Bain/LOC photos of striking waiters in New York City, 1912: