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YorkWAITES GIRLS STRIKE.ASm.TimTEH'ione«:PASSA LoSOHIf.[fty ?elow-lt;rk iujstionuuontdaredof In*ion soleter-catcbmate,of itsjrsbipTimddis)UH Ixir itn nbers lk o»' they ate is . the sifcion •at ur-d dis-uffgle The prm-posixl Xmuuh‘getsvely.ad of u train w Com-to 1.• bill, other u»ted1 lirt-* tunings*theovorpen-Califoruii. yonmA WaltrcHM.* «utt Uocnuto They liuvo B«iuix.TIM) 12 waiter girls In toe boarding department of too California formal bchool hm gone out on a Btrike oil acconiib of the arh * tiaryrulings of Steward Frank Crown.Asa result the 800 boarding students hav • en’t bad much to c«t this week.About a year ago,Frauk Craven, a Wim man of town, was nppolntud Stow Trustees, aud since be secured that pw.Lion the ciris who ore now out on u strike ollego ho has exceeded his powers jo requu'mg thorn to observe the rules which apply to otoei young ladies of the college. Thu tabic corps of waiters is made up of U girl*, whose ages range from 10 to 10, end some of them were employed at the college previous to the time Craven took hold of the stewardship The first step the Steward took was to prevent their having inafc friend* call on them at the coUege building. They became in.liRiu.nt at this aud immediately formed themselves Into a union. Two of the 14, however, could uot be persuade.! to join the organization, and thereafter they were treated In n cohl and buughty manner by the others. T hinip usovad along quietly for a few weeks, aud in the meantime toe girls were obliged to resort to clandestine meetings on the campus and elsewhere In order to see their sweethearts. They tired of this, and a meeting of the union was called in secret. For the next few days it was noticed that the p«t»r members of the union coyly Ogled the male students atthe table and served them with the choicestviands that the college larder afforded.The purpose of the secret meeting was mmle plain, cm! slowly several of the most devoted fellows iu tba boys' dormitory grew cold toward toair fair classnmSos and succumbed to too wiles of the waiter girls. Then a loud bowl como from the girl students, They declared open war against the waitresses and carried their troubles to tbs fctev-nrd. As a solution to too problem, he issued another edict requiring the waitresses to wear white aprons and white enj * all the time, to distinguish them from t. - female students, ami thought this would mark their calling so ulninly that the hoys would hesitate to be s«m with them on the campu-. orelsewhere. This was the Ust straw, and on Saturday after supper the 12 Hitlo waitress* lined up before toe Steward aid m terms that con ill nob hr misiinderttmid told him ju»t wbnt they thought of the wav be InmaeUnb n .Ifu tried tc urgue the mnthT, bul not. manage to get in n word vd£iviw, Tb**y niltnlkefl at onco. and talked fiust. Ihey t*»Id him tbi-n and then? ttwl be should tvitlulniw his or dor about u pro»w and cups «r tlioj would quit on the spot. He wu» lirm, «ncl in j* .. . ... ,.i. ..1 \ hi,irBy a 3►veryI. Uio : utilbill.Ki'lr-) IjIjItheir'bill 5 tiouais asa buhiut-sidiho manner Lho gu Is packed their crunks iu«l hud Them taken »why »■ mipress wagon, while they fallowed in a tri umpbnnt rnuich iio«« out. On Sunday there wero only two waiter* to look nf ter c.ho students in the dimiiK bull, an J a* a result, nobody cot much oC anything to unt. It is thought thorn will lie mine dillii'ulty m tilling the vacancies, th«- strikers all win* of ru* spoclnbie families and haw public sympathy on Lbelr side.c-^n-nnmf A *r srm'ITOF.R.Tinbn vo ten ci? and t? mid t been casini there cimtrllftVflject. made ontru »d i#r (level t.bere tost V Tin berent moot of tor pu«t 1 this 1: wrek.Du nu All tl T be suit?;al'it* t hu inn have field 1 moveI riwti tost v ghenj point well ' years ttev tornt btlVCtl'01**1 vdW!P»'|f/ entiivfol t.arv, Direr Lonic J. M. Davii year jupancoon ilieioatloii jtaut
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Connellsville Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, May 03, 1895
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