06/07/2024 Revolution's Newsstand
Striking hotel workers, 1913.
‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913.
I.W.W. Influence Predominating.
(Special to Solidarity.) New York, Jan. 17. The International Hotel Workers’ Union, an organization of hotel and restaurant workers with a membership of 25,000, has been on strike in the city of New York for the past week. The strike was called to protest against certain conditions that prevail in this industry. These conditions are: insufficient pay, long hours, poor food, unsanitary conditions where these workers eat, where their clothes are stored during work hours, toilet, etc., and the intervention of the employment shark between the workers and...