waitersstrike

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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...

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

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Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

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

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

Looks like a waiter's strike of November, 1918. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE3DB113BEE3AB...

It looks like the negative is dated 5/31/12 so probably not this particular event. We'll add the date to the source catalog.

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_New_York_City_waiters'_strike The Waiters strike that expanded in 1912-1913: WAITERS OUT IN 17 MORE PLACES; Strikes at Vanderbilt, Martinique, Manhattan, Sherry's, Shanley's, and Mouquin's. June 1, 1912, Saturday The war of the waiters was waged furiously yesterday from early morning till night -- from breakfast time until the dinner hour -- and when the striking hotel workers gathered last evening to recount their victories at a mass meeting their leaders could report that seventeen hotels and restaurants had been wounded during the day. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E3D9153CE633A... 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...