Show STRIKE FEVER ON I i Several Thousand Men in New York I I I Stop Work New York April 2 Several thousand men in the city neighboring town In New Jersey and Wcstchestcr county N Y struck today for increases In wages and shorter hours Most of the I strikers arc carpenters and the enormous enor-mous amount of building in progress favors the men In the borough of the Bronx tho carpenters demand 350 a day for eight hours work with a Saturday Sat-urday half holiday and In Mount Vernon Ver-non they ask 326 for the same work In Newark N J the carpenters demand de-mand J3 a day for eight hours They now get 527fi for a ninehour day The men are well organized and the contractors are not making a united stand Indeed there Is a general disposition dis-position compromise with the strikers strik-ers and not a few employers have concede con-cede the scale presented Painters decorators and plumber also struck In the neighboring towns Manhattan Island and Brooklyn arc practically exempt from labor troubles and not many men in the building trades are Idle The surprise of the day was the strike of eeral hundred Italian laborers I employed In Rye and Port Cheater Some demanded LSO for eight hours I work and other a ke < l 2 for the same hoar An early settlement of all the strike U likely I |