LOCK-OUT ORDERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7

LOCK-OUT ORDERED

NEW YORK PLUMBERS May Have Far-Reaching Effect On Industry SEQUEL TO MEN’S STRIKE. [By Telegraph—Par Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received April 28, 10.30 p.m. (A.&N.Z.) NEW YORK, April 28. A lock-out covering the whole city and affecting 10,000 plumbers and their helpers, and threatening to bring to a standstill 100,000,000 dollars’ worth of construction work, going on here, was ordered by the Building Trades Employers’ Association to-day, as the result of ’ the recent strike. j The lock-out is designed to bring ‘ ■ pressure to bear on th© Brooklyn strik--1 ers. It is estimated that if the lockout continues for a month it will throw ’ 700,000 men out of work in other bran--5 ches of the building industry. 1 ! The Brooklyn strikers demand, be--1 besides wage increases, the following ! terms: A three year contract and a pro- ' I vision that the granting of a wage in- , • crease to one local branch of the union ’ iis automatically applied to workers in ’ ’others after 90 days. The employers are willing to conceed the three years’ agreement, but the ! plumbers’ helpers declare that, irrespec- | tive of any agreement, they will not • return to work unless their own union ■is recognised, and wages are increased : to nine dollars a day, with a 40-hour week and double time for overtime.