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Show LABOR CONDITIONS ARE STRAINED irt LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, May 1. To enforce ' u demand for a wage scale of $4 a day, ' Instead of the present scale of 5,50, tho carpenters affiliated with the Los Augelos branch of ihe United Brotherhood Broth-erhood t Carpentprs and Joiners wore ordered out today. strained situation also exists In tho bakers' tiade, which may result in a strike at any timo, and It Is possible pos-sible tnat other trades may be affected affect-ed at ajatep day. p In labor circles, however, there is a general denial oC a prospect of a general gen-eral strike, niouGh some of tho lpad-crs lpad-crs bcllove it possible that one will bo called. The leaders of the carpenters car-penters deny their strike is a part of a general movement. "We want $ I a day," said James A. Gray, general organizer for Los Angeles, An-geles, "and we are not asking for anything any-thing else" He adds that In cases where contractors wore not willing to pay tho Increased scale, men were, as a rule, obeying tho strike order. |