LIFT OPERATORS
STRIKE IN NEW YORK.
OTHERS ALSO INVOLVED. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) New York, Feb. 18. A general strike of building service employees, which has been agitated in New York for several months, tooK partial effect to-day, but later an overnight truce was arranged to allow time for further efforts to reach a compromise. The union, comprising lift operators, building superintendents, doormen, etc., claims a membership of 200,000 in tho city’s five boroughs and is demanding a higher wage scale, shorter hours and union recognition. The union showed its strength today when, it called out workers in 200 mid-town skyscrapers, including a 20-storey apartment building with several thousand tenants. The lift service was halted 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 police and firemen into the lift service if the strike is not recalled to-morrow.
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Southland Times, Issue 22511, 20 February 1935, Page 7
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