NEW YORK STRIKE.
Building Service Employees Want Higher Pay. SKYSCRAPER TROUBLES. (Received 0.30 a m.) NEW YORK, February 19. A general strike of building service employees, which has been agitated for in New York for several months, took partial effect yesterday. However, later a truce was arranged to allow time for further efforts to reach a compromise. The union, comprising lift operators, building superintendents, furnace engineers, doormen, etc., claims a membership of 200,000 in the city's five boroughs. It is demanding a higher scale of wages and shorter hours, also recognition of the union. The union showed its strength when it called out the workers from 200 skyscrapers in the city, including a 20storey apartment building with several thousand tenants. The lift service was suspended or greatly disrupted, and many tenants were forced to climb 20 or more flights of stairs or stay away from their employment, which many did. City officials are threatening to press policemen and firemen into the lift service if the strike is called on again to-dav.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1935, Page 7
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