SHORTAGE OF BRICKLAYERS.
A NEW YORK PROBLEM. (BT CABLE —PHEB3 ASSOCIATION —COPTSTBHT.) (.ATJSTKALIAN AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.; NEW YORK, July 12. Due to the extensive building operations in the city and desultory building workers' strikes, there is a serious shortage of bricklayers, who now demand 14 dollars to 18 dollars a day. The New York Municipal Government is engaged building several schools to relieve the congestion, which last winter reached dangerous proportions, causing a popular outcry, but is unable to get bricklayers. The schools must be finished in the next two months, when the annual summer school holidays end. The Mayor has issued a proclamation "calling upon men with a. knowledge of bricklaying to coin* forward and help finish the schools, and has also ordered the heads of the Fire and Police Departments to excuse members of their forces able to lay bricks.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17815, 14 July 1923, Page 15
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