NEW YORK HOTELS
STRIKE WF EMPLOYEES ■IBB JENNIE LEE LEADS PARADE press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. January 26. Demanding union recognition, higher pay, and shorter hours, 20,000 waiters, cooks, and kitchen assistants went on strike to-night, crippling the service in virtually every major hotel and restauvrant in the city. Two thousand strikers, led by Miss Jennie Lee, a former Xaboui member of the British Parliament, who recently arrived, paraded to the ’ exclusive Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where they jeered and hooted the tophatted and 1 evening-gowned guests. The police guarded all hotels and restaurants. where makeshift staffs are attempting to maintain a service.
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Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 9
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103NEW YORK HOTELS Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 9
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