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Show CARPENTERS ASK WAGE INCREASE Two Thousand Went on Strike at Brooklyn, N, Y., Yesterday. NEW YORK, May 2. A strike of carpenters car-penters In Brooklyn yesterday is said to include 2000 of the 4000 carpenters employed In that borough. The strikers strik-ers want their pay raised from 60 to 66'4 cents an hour. This would Increase In-crease their weekly wage from $22 to $24.75. At the . strike headquarters it was said that 150 of 410 employers had already acceded to the terms proposed. Daniel Featherson, secretary of the New York district council of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, said that 4000 carpenters had struck in the Bronx for an advance from $4 to $4.60 a day. The carpenters in Queens, he said, struck last month for an Increase in wages from $3.50 to $4. The 800 carpenters car-penters on Stateu Inland made the same demands, to go Into effect Monday. Mon-day. . The strike in the Bronx did not last long, Featherson said, as before the afternoon af-ternoon the majority of the employers granted the demands. Many carpenters carpen-ters In Queens had returned to work, but as soon as they heard the Brooklyn Brook-lyn carpenters were out they struck again. No strikes took place In Manhattan. |