REBELLIOUS WAITERS.
The London correspondent of the Irish Times states that in one of the best known hotels in London, employing a very large staff, the waiters mutinied against an alteration in the method of paying them. During breakfast and luncheon hours the mutineers raised the standard of revolt in the dining, coffee, and smoke rooms. They broke the mirrors, threw the china and glass about the rooms, smashed the furniture, and otherwise wrecked the establishment. Then the swallow-tailed servitors marched off the premises, followed soon after by the chambermaids, scullions, cooks, and other domestics. The proprietor was not at home, and those in charge were completely surprised by the demonstration. When the proprietor appeared, instead of invoking the vengeance of the law, he started off in search of the deserters, and invited the lot back at their'previous wages. The offer was accepted.. The hotel was set going again, and by dinner-time all trace of the distu- bance had disappeared. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9220, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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