WAITERS AS PIRATES.
GREAT AGITATION TO ABOLISH "TIPPING." "Abolish tipping" 1 was' the war cry which was sounded at a mass meeting of waiters held at New York in December to promote .the interests of the newlyformed "Internationa] Association of Hotel Workers." . In a speech which was enthusiastically cheered by 500 waiters, Mr. Joseph Weillling, editor of the. association's official journal, exclaimed: "We are regarded as pirates .waving the sknll and cross bones on a white 'table-cloth background. whereas the fact is that we should be the happiest of men. if we could earn a living as other people earn theirs, and if wp could work on a salary basis. The Hotel Trust defeats its own ends by compelling waiters to accent pay at the rate of .£3 12s. a month. This scale of remuneration makes us depend wholly ou 'tips' for our subsistence, the result being, that we serve the interests of our patrons rather than those of the hotels." Tho association is agitating with the object of inducing hotel and restanrant proprietors to engage waiters at a salary of .£4 a week, and in addition 1 per cent, on the food and 2 per cent, on the wine consumed.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 3
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201WAITERS AS PIRATES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 3
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