BUILDING TRADE HOLD-UP.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 April 1927, Page 9

BUILDING TRADE HOLD-UP.

Strike of Brooklyn Plumbers. DISASTROUS LOCK-OUT THREATENED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 28, 9.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 27. A lock-out, covering the whole city, and affecting 10,000 plumbers and their helpers, and threatening to bring to a standstill 100 million dollars worth of construction work going on here, has been ordered by the Building Trades Employers’ Association to-day, as a result of the strike of 1500 Brooklyn plumbers. The lock-out is designed to bring pressure to bear on the Brooklyn strikers. It is estimated if the lock-out continues for a month it will throw 700,000 men out of wo A: in other branches of the building industry. The Brooklyn strikers demand, beside wage increases, the following terms: A 3-year contract and provision that the granting of wage increase to one local branch union is automatically. applied to the workers in other local unions after ninety Jays Ihe employers arc wil[ing to concede a 3-vear.s’ agreement, but the plumbers and helpers declare th t r. irrespective of any agreement, they will not return to work unless T.lieir own union is recognised, and wages are increased to nine dollars per day for a 40-hour week and double tune lor overtime.