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Show GENERAL STRIKE X OP MECHANICS Lockout Against Struc-Jujal Struc-Jujal Iron Workers May ffivolve Thousands: i NEW YORK. Nov. 20. In the strike ! of the Structural Iron Workers against the firm of Post & McCord. all progress toward settlement is deadlocked, and a f general lockout against the' whole union iiiay, it is said, be declared by the Em- ployers' association any day. Although the strike against Post & McCord involves in-volves only 300 men, there are nearly 000 similar 'employees and if these were to quit work or be forced into Idleness it would practically stop all rew construction work in the city. Another element of danger lies In the general demand that has been made by all classes of mechanics for higher wages. New York mechanics ask an Increase of 50 cents to $1 a day. Iron workers want an increase of from $4.50 to to. Tbe carpenters are seeking a similar advance. Bricklayers are now getting 70 cents an hour and are asking or 75 ind 80 "cents. Painters want an increase from $3.50 and $4 to $4 and $4.50. Tile-layers have demanded $5.50 a day. They now receive $5. That some of the employers will Stubbornly oppose any increase in M-ages. the workmen well . realize, but they know that there are not enough , good mechanics in New York now to Ljjian all the jobs. Although the arbitration arbitra-tion board is made up of an equal num- ber of emsloyers and union men. It Is feared that It will not be able to adjust the many differences. |