National Affairs: A Building Strike?

Wage demands affecting 60,000 building trades workers directly, and 55,000 indirectly, were drawn up in accordance with a recent decision of the New York Building Trades Council. The demands call for increases of $1 a day in some crafts and $2 a day in others. Failure to grant the wage increases will mean a strike and tie-up of nearly all construction work in the city on May 1,

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