The Volunteer Strike Breakers (1913)
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwin, young college chaps, read that waiters are needed in all the big hotels and restaurants. They apply for positions at Belfonte's restaurant. Harris secures a job as head-waiter and Chester is appointed as one of the regular staff. Harris's fiancée has an engagement with her chum to take dinner with her at the restaurant. They boys pay so much attention to the girls that they neglect the other patrons, who make a kick and complain to the proprietor. He happens in just as Harris's fiancée enters. The proprietor makes his way toward her and when Harris recognizes her, he rushes for her, pushes the boys out of the way, giving her a rigorous hug and a resounding kiss. There is a general uproar and the proprietor threatens to discharge the boys on the spot. The girls cannot understand why Harris and Chester are engaged in so menial an occupation. They explain that it is all a lark, that they thought the experience might he novel, if not profitable. They decide, however, to quit and go with the girls. Just as they are leaving the restaurant, the strikers on parade are just about entering to make protest to the proprietor about employing scabs. They recognize Harris and Chester as two of them. They mob them and the boys with the two girls beat a hasty retreat for a taxi in which they make good their escape; bearing the marks of their experience as volunteer strike breakers.
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