The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-10
$4,000 WORKERS
MAY SOON WALK
CITY'S STREETS
Plumbers in Front Line
Trenches in Far

Within a week, the Building Trades
Employers Association may issue a
lockout order against 125,o00 build
ng trades workers in Greater New
York.
This threat to break a score or more
If contracts with unions developed
yesterday from the Brooklyn plumb
ers strike and the general city wide
lockout Of all other union plumbers
and was sanctioned from sources high
Il the Building Trades Council.
One official, who firmly refused to
De quoted publicly, declared that the
plumbers strike and lockout had
reached an impasse with the build
ng bosses apparently determined to
rake New York City the scene Of
4 national showdown with the work
srs.
No Conferences This week.
In addition high international Of
fetal of the Plumbers Union de-
.lared that negotiations with C. G.
Norman, head of the Employers AS
ISOLATION, had been broken up for the
entire week, with the prospect of de-
.isive action over the weekend. He
lid not indicate whether the decisive
action" would be a general lockout
,r a settlement Of the Brooklyn
strike for STA a day, a 81 increase
md the five day week.
The presence of International Pre-
Iident John Coefield of the Plumbers
N the city last week produced no set
clement nor did Secretary Burke's
assidious effort to have the lockout
order withdrawn meet with any bet
;er luck.
The New York bosses, at the very
.enter of the national building indus
Try, have decreed that the day Of
wage increases is passed. The de-
mand for the five day week, precipi-
.ating a savage industrial struggle
in Seattle, is also to be fought to the
asst ditch.
Close to the financial control Of
he great bond and mortgage houses
in Wall Street, the contractors are
acting not only on their own desire
not to give additional wage increases,
out are following a policy laid down
oy Wall Street itself.
The Plumbers Helpers Association
opened its kitchen at the Church of
All Nations, 9 Second Ave. yesterday,
serving a substantial meal to hun
ireds of strikers who are penniless
through the strike because they were
unable to save on their 81 a day
wage. The helpers are out for re-
:ognition and SO scale with the five
lay week.
Bakers Local 3 of the Amalga-
mated Food Workers has agreed to
contribute $50 week in food for the
strikers kitchen.
A meeting Of the helpers, under
he presidency of c. E. Miller,
was held last night at the Church Of
All Nations with another meeting
scheduled for tonight at the Bronx
Labor Lyceum, 10th st. and Third
Ave.
The helpers are arranging a picnic
Tor July 10, with the proceeds for the
relief of striking and locked out men,
bers.
Progressives Ask Joint Action.
The Progressive Building Trades
Workers of Greater New York In a
Ieaflet distributed among building
\ trades workers this week have APP
,stealed for a united front with the
II imbers and their helpers in the
ig SHIT for a 5-day week and $14 day.
NY.iarning that a defeat of separate
lnio1aAs seems possible, the progress.
sI1eslbare asking joint action not only
% oSleat the threatened general lock-
out but to gain for all workers the
,bjectives sought by the plumbers.